Category Archives: Post to Social
Dairy Queen could open in Popkum east of Chilliwack in spring 2024
POPKUM - There's already a fast food restaurant in Popkum east of Chilliwack offering Timbits and fresh-roasted coffee, but the kind offering Blizzards and Ultimate hamburgers could open as soon as sp...
Dec 06, 2023
Traffic incidents snarl traffic in Abbotsford, Mission Wednesday
ABBOTSFORD/MISSION - Two traffic incidents are impacting traffic on Highway 7 in Mission and on Highway 11 in Abbotsford Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 6).Drive BC reported at 2:14 p.m. Wednesday that an e...
Dec 06, 2023
Mission school board trustee fined by Elections BC for violating election rules
VICTORIA - Elections BC has fined a Mission school board trustee for violating election rules in the 2022 municipal election. According to an administrative penalty letter on its website, Linda Hamel ...
Dec 06, 2023
Chilliwack River Valley Fire Dept. collects hundreds in cash donations, dozens of boxes for its canned food drive
CHILLIWACK RIVER VALLEY - Residents of the Chilliwack River Valley responded to their rural fire department's annual canned food drive with generous hearts. According to a Facebook post from the Chill...
Dec 06, 2023
B.C. RCMP's Major Crimes Unit to probe privacy breach; AbbyPD, CFSEU first aware in November
ABBOTSFORD - Roughly three weeks after two police agencies in British Columbia announced they were probing an unauthorized privacy breach, B.C. RCMP's Major Crimes Unit will take over the investigatio...
Dec 06, 2023
Parking and food services impacted at UFV as construction begins on new student housing, dining building
ABBOTSFORD - The University of the Fraser Valley says changes are coming to its Abbotsford campus. According to a news release on its website, UFV reports that parking and food services will be impact...
Dec 06, 2023
Strohmaier Excavating awarded nearly $300K RFP contract to build new Evergreen Hall parking lot
CHILLIWACK - Strohmaier Excavating (2019) Ltd. of Chilliwack has been awarded a nearly $300,000 RFP contract to construct a new parking lot behind Evergreen Hall in Chilliwack, adjacent to the Chilliw...
Dec 06, 2023
RCMP recover $500,000 in surveying equipment after Burnaby business burglarized 2x in 24 hours
BURNABY - Burnaby RCMP says it has recovered approximately $500,000 of stolen specialized surveying equipment after a north Burnaby business was targeted in two break and enters in less than 24 hours....
Dec 06, 2023
YOUR PERSPECTIVE: NDP's session of stumbles
As the fall legislative session in Victoria comes to a close it's hard not to be disappointed with David Eby.In a time when over half of British Columbians are $200 or less away from not being able to...
Dec 06, 2023
Multiple agencies respond after semi truck erupts in flames on Hwy. 1 in Hope
HOPE - Multiple agencies headed up by the Hope Fire Department responded to a semi truck fire Monday night that blocked the westbound lanes of Highway 1 near exit 168 (Flood Hope Road) in Hope. Accord...
Dec 05, 2023