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Province announces more than 100 new homes for seniors in Langley
LANGLEY - Langley City seniors have access to 101 new affordable homes with the opening of The Maple. It's an eight-storey development for independent seniors.The building is located on the 5400 block...
May 15, 2026 More than 100 new apartments are now available to residents of The Maple in Langley. (Image Credit: Supplied, BC Govt.)
First degree murder charge laid in fatal Abbotsford encampment fire
ABBOTSFORD - Prosecutors have upgraded a charge against a 49-year-old man in connection with the death of a person at the Peardonville encampment in Abbotsford last month.The Integrated Homicide Inves...
May 15, 2026 Police investigate a suspected fatal arson at the Peardonville homeless camp on Friday, April 24, 2026. (Image Credit: Supplied, Abbotsford Police department)
No injuries reported after garage fire on Brooks Avenue in Chilliwack Friday morning
CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack fire crews battled a garage fire at a home on Brooks Avenue Friday morning. Chilliwack Assistant Fire Chief Chris Wilson says fire crews were dispatched at about 7:10 a.m. Frid...
May 15, 2026 File photo, Chilliwack Fire Dept. (Image Credit: File photo, Mike Vanden Bosch.)
Abbotsford Police announce charges in 2025 fatal pedestrian crash
ABBOTSFORD - A driver has now been charged in connection with a fatal pedestrian crash along Harris Road in Abbotsford in early 2025. In a news release, the Abbotsford Police Department says investiga...
May 15, 2026 File (Image Credit: Abbotsford Police)
Drivers headed to the B.C. Interior warned of snow risk
HOPE - Highway travellers headed to the B.C. Interior this long weekend, are being warned to be prepared for the possibility of snow on high mountain roads.Environment Canada says falling freezing lev...
May 15, 2026 File (Image Credit: Pattison Media)
Man arrested, charged with attempted kidnapping at Chilliwack elementary school
UPDATE: Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener says police will hold a media briefing Friday morning to address the child abduction that has resulted in charges against Joel McGillis. Ori...
May 14, 2026 File photo, RCMP. (Image Credit: Mike Vanden Bosch.)
District of Kent Council grants temporary permit to operation that employs about 40, supports local students
AGASSIZ - The District of Kent will allow two companies to continue their operations at their current site after council voted in support of a one-year temporary use permit this past week. According t...
May 14, 2026 Image: District of Kent / District of Kent Council, including Mayor Sylvia Pranger (centre).
Chilliwack-area RCMP officers connect with local youth at 1st annual Fishing With a Cop event
ABBOTSFORD/SEABIRD ISLAND - RCMP members from the Upper Fraser Valley detachment's Indigenous Policing Services found a neat way to build rapport with local Seabird Island youth through the first-ever...
May 14, 2026 A Seabird Island Community School student shows off the fish she caught next to RCMP Constable Bradley Holditch as part of the 1st annual ”Fishing With a Cop” event held earlier this week in Abbotsford, in partnership with the RCMP's Indigenous Policing Services. (Image Credit: Upper Fraser Valley RCMP Indigenous Policing Services.)
Teen driver in Abbotsford endangers others with reckless speed and pays the price
ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford say a teenage driver's decision to go more than double the speed limit on an Abbotsford road backfired in a big way Wednesday night.In a statement, AbbyPD spokesperso...
May 14, 2026 Towed vehicle in Abbotsford. (Image Credit: AbbyPD.)
Chilliwack, Mission RCMP to conduct backcountry patrols this long weekend to ensure ORV, rec user safety
CHILLIWACK/MISSION - Mounties with the Upper Fraser Valley and Mission RCMP detachments both say they will be conducting backcountry and remote patrols during the upcoming long weekend to ensure off-r...
May 14, 2026 Backcountry patrols. (Image Credit: Upper Fraser Valley RCMP.)