
Fraser Valley

Community Emergency Preparedness Fund
Fraser Valley communities receive $90K for fire department upgrades
HARRISON - Three communities in the Fraser Valley have received new funding from the B.C. government to improve emergency response ahead of wildfire season.The province is supporting 86 projects across various volunteer and composite fire departments in B.C. through the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund (CEPF).Harr...
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Motor Incident
Traffic stalled after accident on Highway 11 in Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORD - Traffic had been stalled for a few minutes on a section of Highway 11 due to a motor vehicle incident late Saturday morning (Apr. 4). Scanner traffic reported that two BCEHS ambulances responded to the incident on the intersection of Sumas Way and South Fraser Way at around 11:25 a.m. "Paramedics prov...
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Steps of Hope
Abbotsford to host epilepsy awareness walk in May
ABBOTSFORD - Residents are invited to join a walk in support of people and families living with epilepsy in the community. The Abbotsford-based B.C. nonprofit, Centre for Epilepsy & Seizure Education (ESEBC), is hosting Steps of Hope - an all-ages epilepsy awareness walk at Mill Lake Park next month. "The even...
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Road Safety
Police remove nine impaired drivers from Abbotsford roads Friday night
ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford have had a busy few days on the road heading into the long weekend.On Wednesday and Thursday, April 1 and 2, Traffic Enforcement Unit officers issued over 100 violation tickets across the city for the two-day speed enforcement blitz.Frontline officers then removed nine impaired drivers...
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Lithium-Ion Battery
Chilliwack Fire urges safety reminder after battery-related fire in detached garage
CHILLIWACK - Firefighters have tackled a smoking shed in Chilliwack early Friday morning (Apr. 4).At roughly 3:35 a.m., crews from Halls 1 and 4, as well as RCMP, responded to reports of smoke coming from the property in the 8800 block of Elm Drive, but found no active smoke or flames when they arrived.Further investig...
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Chilliwack Chiefs
Series Opener Heads to Overtime
By Shaelee Dombrowski Game 1 did not go the Chiefs' way after Coquitlam took the series lead in overtime. Round 1 of the 2026 Rogers BCHL Playoffs commenced Friday night as the Chilliwack Chiefs hosted their first-round opponents, the Coquitlam Express. Game 1 of the series brought a lot of what you can [...]
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British Columbia

B.C. RCMP officer injured after crash during motorcycle training exercise
SURREY - Two BC Highway Patrol officers were taken to hospital, including one with serious injuries, after crashing during a motorcycle training exercise in Surrey, B.C. A statement from the RCMP says officers from various units were participating in a...
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Suspicious fire at waste management facility under investigation in Victoria
VICTORIA - Police say a fire near a Victoria waste management facility has been ruled suspicious. The Victoria Police Department says the fire department called officers to attend the area of Bridge Street at Bay Steet on Friday in response to a fire n...
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Air quality is being monitored after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY - Officials say they are monitoring the air quality after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C., sent large plumes of smoke into the air. Metro Vancouver Regional District says it's aware of a barge fire near the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge, also known as River...
Apr 03, 2026
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B.C. mother and seven-year-old daughter freed from ICE, says MLA
VANCOUVER - A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter who spent three weeks detained at an immigration facility in Texas were released from detention on Thursday. Amelia Boultbee, an independent MLA who represents the electoral district of Pent...
Apr 03, 2026
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'Absolute betrayal': First Nations blast Eby in leaked transcript of DRIPA meeting
A leaked transcript of a meeting between Indigenous leaders and British Columbia Premier David Eby, about his plan to suspend the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA, shows them accusing him of "absolute betrayal" a...
Apr 03, 2026
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Does your single friend excel? Try a PowerPoint dating pitch
VANCOUVER - Harjot Rai had three minutes to make his PowerPoint pitch. The subject? His cringing friend, Matt White. And the audience was a far cry from executives in a corporate boardroom. Instead, it was 150 strangers at the Hollywood Theatre in Vanc...
Apr 03, 2026
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Canada

Tumbler Ridge, B.C. or Taber, Alta., set to be named Hockeyville winner
One community is going to get a major boost for its ice rink tonight as the Kraft Hockeyville 2026 winner is scheduled to be announced. Tumbler Ridge, B.C., and Taber, Alta., are the two finalists vying for $250,000, while the runner-up will receive $...
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Iran war the latest crisis affecting food banks as usage in Toronto hits record high
Toronto's largest food bank says it's been dealing with crisis after crisis as the war in Iran makes it even more expensive to feed the thousands of food insecure Torontonians who rely on it. Neil Hetherington, CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank, said f...
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'Unsettling:' Minister says one patient attacked another at Edmonton emergency room
EDMONTON - Alberta's hospitals minister says a patient seeking care at a major Edmonton emergency room was taken into custody after attacking another patient on Friday. Matt Jones says in a social media post that Edmonton police and other hospital pers...
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In Toronto's Little Italy, fans line up to swap jerseys and embrace Team Canada
TORONTO - Fans of Italy's national soccer team may be disappointed their team won't be in the 2026 World Cup, but at least some of them got a consolation prize. More than 100 fans lined up outside Café Diplomatico on a grey Toronto morning for a Canad...
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Why the Iran war has renewed calls for a sovereign medical supply chain
OTTAWA - The fallout from the war in the Middle East has led to cuts in helium supplies for health services in at least one province - and experts are warning that Canada still hasn't done enough to secure sovereignty over critical medical supply chain...
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Could Trump follow through on his threats to quit NATO? Experts say it's possible
OTTAWA - President Donald Trump's comments to a British newspaper this week revived speculation about whether he is ready to pull the U.S. out of the NATO defensive pact, of which Canada is a member. Venting his frustration over what he claimed is the ...
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World

Artemis II toilet acts up again as astronauts speed toward the moon to break Apollo 13's record
HOUSTON (AP) - Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. ...
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5.8 magnitude quake hits Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing 8 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 rattled parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan late Friday, killing at least eight people in Afghanistan, authorities said. The region is...
Apr 03, 2026
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Myanmar's parliament elects ruling general as president, keeping the army in charge
BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's parliament on Friday elected Min Aung Hlaing, a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as the country's new president. The move m...
Apr 03, 2026
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Sports

Connor scores twice, Jets beat Blue Jackets 2-1 to stay in playoff hunt
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Kyle Connor scored twice and the Winnipeg Jets overcame an early deficit to beat Columbus 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping their NHL playoff holes alive and sending the Blue Jackets to their sixth straight loss. Winnipeg moved to 78...
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After 13 years, David Beckham's dream comes true: Inter Miami calls Miami home
MIAMI (AP) - Don Garber remembers the earliest days of David Beckham's plans to bring Major League Soccer to Miami, the quest that started more than a dozen years ago. There were twists. There were turns. Eventually, there was Lionel Messi, too. But th...
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There will be a new Cup champion. Florida's injury-plagued season won't include the playoffs
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Maybe the end for the Florida Panthers came when Brad Marchand was shut down for the season last month. Or maybe it was when Seth Jones broke his collarbone and wound up missing 26 games. Or, maybe it was 20 minutes into training c...
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