Category Archives: Fraser Valley
UPDATE: BC Housing provides update on its response to the pending closure of Island 22 in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - As an eviction notice of January 31 approaches, there are no official plans just yet to provide housing options to the remaining residents of the Island 22 homeless camp on Cartmell Road ...
Jan 24, 2024
Parkland temporarily shuts down Burnaby refinery after Jan. 21 smoke, odour
VANCOUVER - Parkland Corp. says it has temporarily shut down fuel processing at its Burnaby, B.C. refinery. The Calgary-based fuel distributor and marketer says it paused processing operations at the ...
Jan 24, 2024
CP NewsAlert: B.C. records highest number of annual drug deaths yet, coroner says
VICTORIA - The BC Coroners Service says there were 2,511 suspected illicit drug deaths last year, the highest annual toll ever recorded. Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says close to 14,000 people have di...
Jan 24, 2024
City of Abbotsford, Tourism Abbotsford ink 4-year deal
ABBOTSFORD - The City of Abbotsford and the Tourism Abbotsford Society have come to terms on a four-year contract of their shared agreement for tourism marketing and visitor engagement services in the...
Jan 24, 2024
Abandoned trailer burns in the Chilliwack River Valley
CHILLIWACK - Another environmental eyesore has surfaced in the once pristine Chilliwack River Valley, but government inaction on multiple levels has invariably created scenarios like this one. Ross Ai...
Jan 24, 2024
RCMP superintendent's storied career began with a class at a Chilliwack high school
CHILLIWACK - RCMP Superintendent Dale Carr's inclination to become a Mountie started while he was growing up in Chilliwack. When Carr was enrolled in a grade 10 law class at Chilliwack Senior High, as...
Jan 24, 2024
Cheam View United Church to hold its final Sunday service downtown next month
CHILLIWACK - A cornerstone of the downtown Chilliwack landscape for decades will hold its final church service next month before moving to another location. Secretary Lynn Catto confirmed in an email ...
Jan 24, 2024
UPDATE: Mission RCMP say missing 70-year-old man has been located
MISSION - Mission RCMP reported Thursday (Jan. 25) that the 70-year-old male who was reported missing on Wednesday, Jan. 23 has been located and safe and sound. Mission RCMP wish to thank everyone for...
Jan 24, 2024
Truck, multiple firearms stolen in latest break and enter in Mission: RCMP
MISSION - A new week, another break and enter involving stolen firearms in Mission. Mounties in Mission say a break-in occurred at a home on 9th Avenue at approximately 3:20 a.m. on Saturday, January ...
Jan 23, 2024
Chilliwack RCMP investigating fatal hit and run on Yale Road
CHILLIWACK - A male has died after being struck by a vehicle on Yale Road near Prest Road in Chilliwack last Thursday, January 18. According to a news release from RCMP Cpl. Carmen Kiener, Chilliwack ...
Jan 23, 2024