Category Archives: Post to Social

Fraser Valley high school students to showcase their trade, skill sets at UFV Chilliwack competition
CHILLIWACK - Roughly 100 students from the Fraser Valley are rolling up their sleeves as they prepare to compete and showcase their core competencies at the regional competitions of Skills Canada Brit...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 26, 2025

Agassiz-area search and rescue manager earns highest award from District of Kent
AGASSIZ - Neil Brewer has practically seen it all and done it all in his 35 years as a manager with Kent Harrison Search and Rescue. Brewer has been involved in more than 600 search and rescue tasks a...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 26, 2025

Fraser Valley woman reported missing
FRASER VALLEY - Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 44-year-old Fraser Valley woman who went missing earlier this week. According to a statement from Surrey Police Service Staff Sgt....
Mike VandenBosch Feb 26, 2025

Hope firefighters respond to overnight shed fire at mobile home park
HOPE - Hope Fire Department says it responded to a shed fire in the middle of the night early Tuesday, its fourth call for service in 12 hours. The department says no injuries were reported to civilia...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025

Update: On-ramp to Highway 1 in the Fraser Valley reopens after flooding
Update at 3:20 p.m.: DriveBC reported at 3:06 p.m. that the eastbound on-ramp to Highway 1 in Langley has reopened, roughly five and a half hours after it was initially closed. Original story below fr...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025

Abbotsford PD seeks witnesses after a pedestrian was struck by a car
ABBOTSFORD - Investigators from the Abbotsford Police Department have released video footage from an incident in December 2024 in which a pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after being stru...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025

Update: One person deceased after Seabird Island fire Sunday
SEABIRD ISLAND - Spokespersons for both the B.C. Coroners Service and the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP have now confirmed that one person died following a house fire in Seabird Island Sunday evening. Ambe...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025

Update: Section of Flood Hope Road open after rock slide Monday night
Update 8 p.m. Wednesday: The District of Hope wrote at 5:32 p.m. Wednesday evening that the rock slide that temporarily blocked Flood Hope Road has now been cleared, and the road is fully open to traf...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025

Downtown fire kills dogs, injures firefighter Sunday in Merritt
MERRITT - Fire officials in Merritt are continuing their investigation into a blaze that destroyed a residence in the 600-block area of Granite Avenue on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 23). Merritt Fire Rescu...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025

Former Chilliwack trustee's appeal in defamation lawsuit dismissed by B.C. Court of Appeal
CHILLIWACK - Former Chilliwack School District trustee Barry Neufeld has lost his appeal in which he was found responsible for defaming current SD33 trustee Carin Bondar.According to the text of a rul...
Mike VandenBosch Feb 25, 2025