Category Archives: Fraser Valley

Police deployed to Hope for high-risk incident Monday night
HOPE - Heavily armed police, presumably from the RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT), surrounded a home near Yale Street and Thacker Avenue in Hope Monday night in what some residents characterized as ...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

Excavator reportedly hits gas line near Commercial Court in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - FortisBC and Chilliwack Fire Department personnel have been dispatched to Commercial Court near Eagle Landing Monday afternoon after an excavator reportedly hit a gas line at, or near, a ...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre pool to close for nearly 2 1/2 weeks
CHILLIWACK - The aquatic facility at the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre, one of two city-owned recreation centres in town, will be closed from Monday, August 21 through Friday, September 8 for sche...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

Out of control fire north of Chilliwack Lake doubles in size
CHILLIWACK - A fire north of Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park in the mountainous Skagit Range has grown from 356 hectares as reported last week to over 800 hectares as of Sunday. The BC Wildfire Servic...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

Chilliwack-area man, Hope woman facing charges for breaking into retail store
KAMLOOPS - A Chilliwack-area man with an extensive criminal record is one of three people facing numerous charges after a series of Kamloops-area crimes, including a recent break-and-enter at the Heff...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

RCMP converge on Watson Road home Friday, where an overdose occurred Sunday
CHILLIWACK - Members of the RCMP Emergency Response Team responded to the 45400 block of Watson Road Friday afternoon to reportedly execute a search warrant at a home on the north side of the road. Th...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

Crime rate on the rise in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - There is a disturbing trend emerging as society recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and it has nothing to do with physical health. Instead, the trend is an increase in crime. That was a p...
Mike VandenBosch Aug 21, 2023

Poor air quality expected to continue until Tuesday across Fraser Valley
CHILLIWACK - Wildfires burning throughout British Columbia and the state of Washington are smothering parts of the province with choking levels of smoke. The situation led to the declaration of an air...
Dave Barry Aug 20, 2023

Hope RCMP respond to fatal shooting Sunday west of Hope, 28-year-old man dead
HOPE - A suspect is in custody following the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man early Sunday morning (August 20) in a rural area west of Hope. In a news release from the Integrated Homicide Investiga...
Dave Barry Aug 20, 2023

Air quality alert issued for Fraser Valley amid surging B.C. wildfires
VANCOUVER - Chilliwack, Abbotsford and and other central and eastern sections of the Fraser Valley are under an Air Quality Alert. The alert was issued Saturday (Aug. 19) afternoon by the Metro Vancou...
Dave Barry Aug 19, 2023