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Volunteers remove over 6,000 pounds of debris from Vedder Bridge homeless encampment
CHILLIWACK - Community-minded volunteers and stewards concerned with the environment hauled away over 6,000 pounds of garbage and other belongings from a homeless encampment along Sweltzer Creek Cresc...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 17, 2023

New provincial curling champions emerge at Chilliwack Curling Club
CHILLIWACK - The 2023 B.C. Scotties Women's Curling Championship and the 2023 BC Men's Curling Championship wrapped up over the weekend, with two new provincial champion teams minted at the Chilliwack...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 17, 2023

RCMP ask for help in finding missing Indigenous man
HOPE - Mounties in Hope and the surrounding Fraser Valley are asking for the public's help in locating an Indigenous man and say it is unusual for him to be disconnected from his friends and family fo...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 17, 2023

Abbotsford asking residents to reduce recycling contamination
ABBOTSFORD - There used to be a day when recycling efforts focussed on convincing people to develop recycling habits. And while that has been largely successful, the new challenge is to have people co...
Dave Barry Jan 16, 2023

Chilliwack RCMP investigate shots fired at SinAmen Bun bakery
CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack RCMP are investigating after a male suspect fired several bullets at a popular Chilliwack bakery that sells gourmet cinnamon buns. The incident occurred at SinAmen Bun Co., loc...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 16, 2023

Abbotsford police release video of suspects running from fatal hit & run, appeal for information
ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford police are asking for the public to step forward with information about two men who are not cooperating with an investigation into a hit and run that claimed the life of an Abb...
Dave Barry Jan 16, 2023

Avian flu identified in two more Fraser Valley poultry farms
CHILLIWACK - Another two Fraser Valley farms have been struck with the highly contagious avian flu.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the virus was confirmed this week on commercial poultry farm...
Dave Barry Jan 15, 2023

Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre working to triple the number of Aqua Fit classes
CHILLIWACK - The municipal operator of the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre says it continues to work to bring back Aqua Fit classes that were once a staple of the recreation centre. But it all depen...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 14, 2023

MP Mark Strahl grills transport minister, airlines for lack of communication over holidays
CHILLIWACK - Canadians didn't sign up for long hours waiting on hold to sleepless nights on airport floors and desperate scrambles to rebook flights and find missing bags, but thousands did so during ...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 14, 2023

City of Chilliwack unveils public art at Five Corners towering over 10 feet tall
CHILLIWACK - The work of Chilliwack artists David and Krista Kilvert now illuminates the corner of Yale Road and Young Road in downtown Chilliwack in what city officials and downtown advocates hope wi...
Mike VandenBosch Jan 13, 2023