ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford police have been dumbfounded after a local couple tried to pull a switcheroo mid-drive to avoid catching charges - only to end up getting them anyway. On April 14, officers with the Street Order Response Team tried to pull over a motorhome on Whatcom Road when they noticed the licence plates did...

ABBOTSFORD - Less than a week after a fire was intentionally started outside Bakerview Centre for Learning, Abbotsford PD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker has confirmed two more arsons at local schools. Sgt. Walker tells Fraser Valley Today that a fire was set to a portable classroom at Bakerview Centre for Learning on We...

LANGLEY - Emergency crews have been on scene at a stretch of the Langley Bypass all morning after two separate motor vehicle incidents Saturday. BC Emergency Health Services responded to the first incident westbound on the Fraser Highway and Langley Bypass at 8:38 a.m. RCMP assisted with blocking the road's left lane a...

CHILLIWACK - Residents are invited to get their steps in while helping out a local cat rescue.ABC Cat Rescue has been selected for "Progress for Paws", a 20-day nationwide campaign led by Nude Beverages in which every 10,000 steps would send $1 to animal rescues across Canada.The volunteer-run non-profit, fou...

COQUITLAM - B.C.'s police watchdog is now seeking more information on an arrest that ended with the suspect being taken to hospital in serious condition in Coquitlam.On November 20, 2025, at around 6:30 a.m., the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) said RCMP were paged out to an assault call at a home on the 1800 b...

ABBOTSFORD - Towing trucks had a busy day after the Abbotsford Police Department cracked down on speeding drivers heading into the weekend. Within 10 hours of enforcement, 13 cars were seized for excessive speed, 47 more received speeding tickets and two drivers were suspended."Yesterday, our Traffic Enforcement U...

Update 9:15 p.m. Friday (Apr. 17): Langley RCMP have now arrested four people in relation to the stabbing on Fraser Highway this afternoon. At roughly 4:12 p.m., officers with the detachment's Special Response Team arrested three boys and one man in relation with the incident. "From the moment this incident was re...

LANGLEY - Langley RCMP say one man is now in police custody after a stabbing incident that sent one to hospital with serious injuries Thursday afternoon (Apr. 16).Police responded to a disturbance in the 6400 block of 199 Street at 4:05 p.m. yesterday and found a 46-year-old man suffering from a stab wound.Mounties say...

CHILLIWACK - Fourteen people were assessed by paramedics after what emergency officials call a "hazmat incident" at a park in Chilliwack, B.C. Emergency Health Services says in a statement that three ambulances and a supervisor were called to Portage P...

ABBOTSFORD - Residents are invited to sink their teeth into some Tim Horton's cookies for a good cause again this year.The Smile Cookie fundraiser campaign is back to raise funds for health care in the Fraser Valley.Smile Cookie campaign raises five figures for Chilliwack General Hospital equipment needs"This year...

CHILLIWACK - Animal rescuers are now taking care of four dogs and one cat who were found in distress after living in a hoarder's RV in Chilliwack recently. On April 1, BC SPCA says three Shiba Inu-mix dogs and puppies, a hairless Chihuahua, and a cat were removed from the vehicle, which was covered in feces and urine-s...

ABBOTSFORD - A novice driver has been removed from local roads after nearly hitting a police car in Abbotsford last night (Apr. 16).AbbyPD patrol officers were travelling eastbound on Highway 1 when they noticed an SUV weaving between lanes before leaving at Clearbook Road and continuing north. Police then followed to ...

COQUIHALLA HIGHWAY - A Mission father and son have had to find another way home after their vehicle was caught speeding on the Coquihalla Highway last week.On April 10, just before 7 p.m., a BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) officer saw a northbound lifted pickup truck travelling faster than other traffic on Highway 5, just sou...

Abbotsford police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who has been missing for roughly a week. Authorities say 34-year-old Preston Greenshields was last seen in central Abbotsford on April 10. He is described as 5'8" and 190 pounds, with short brown hair and blue eyes. "The police were able to p...

LANGLEY - Mounties in Langley say a 46-year-old man has been hospitalized with serious wounds after being stabbed Thursday afternoon.Langley RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Zynal Sharoom says police received a report of a disturbance in the 6400 block of 199 Street at about 4:05 p.m. Thursday. Langley RCMP members immediately r...

Update 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 17: RCMP say the 31-year-old man who was last seen at a Princeton sawmill early Wednesday morning has now been found dead, and the cause of his death is not considered suspicious. All identifying information has been removed for privacy reasons.

MISSION - A spokesperson for the Mission RCMP detachment says Emergency Response Team members executed a search warrant at a home Thursday morning in Mission. Mission RCMP spokesperson Corporal Harrison Mohr says says ERT members attended a residence on Cherry Avenue west of Cedar Street Thursday in relation to an ongo...

CHILLIWACK/ABBOTSFORD - FortisBC is reminding residents, contractors and landscapers to contact BC 1 Call before spring landscaping projects begin amid company data that shows an average of two "digging" incidents per month in both Chilliwack and Abbotsford. In a statement, the utility is reminding residents ...

FRASER VALLEY - Canada Post says it will begin preliminary work on converting roughly 17,000 addresses in Abbotsford and Mission to community mailboxes as it seeks to "restore and renew" the country's postal service and eliminate door-to-door mail delivery. According to a statement, Canada Post says it has re...

CHILLIWACK - A commercial vehicle hauling dumpsters crashed on westbound Highway 1 near Yale Road in Chilliwack Thursday morning, leaping a concrete shoulder barrier and causing traffic congestion through the area. First responders were notified about the traffic incident at approximately 9:24 a.m.Chilliwack fire crews...

CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove is defending two road projects that could cause construction-related delays for motorists, saying they've been on the books for years and will significantly improve civic infrastructure around Chilliwack once completed. Mayor Popove told 89.5 JR Country Morning host Glen Slinger...

CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack North MLA Heather Maahs has endorsed a lawyer and former federal cabinet minister to lead the Conservative Party of B.C. Maahs, who was overwhelmingly elected in October 2024, has lent her support to former 14-year MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay in the race to lead the Conservative Party of B.C. "I...

ABBOTSFORD - Whether you see them or you don't, there's a good chance the Abbotsford Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Unit is actively targeting excessive speeding somewhere in the municipality.Case in point this past weekend when a traffic enforcement police officer conducting speed enforcement on Marshall Road...

CHILLIWACK/POPKUM - The deadline for resident feedback and input around a proposed 216-unit housing project on Yale Road just outside Chilliwack city limits is fast approaching. On its website, the Fraser Valley Regional District says Norah Properties Land Corporation has amended its proposal for a major Official Commu...

ABBOTSFORD - An alert member of the community is being credited after notifying Abbotsford Police about a suspicious man who appeared to be cutting catalytic converters near Whatcom Road and Highway 1 Tuesday afternoon. AbbyPD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker says police were dispatched to Whatcom/Hwy. 1 Tuesday after a r...

MAPLE RIDGE - Mounties in Maple Ridge say a 37-year-old man is facing steep financial penalties, no car for a month, and a chat with the Ministry of Children and Family Development after he was caught driving his Tesla impaired at over 110 km/h above the speed limit with his kids aboard.According to a statement from po...

CHILLIWACK - Mounties in Chilliwack now say the equivalent of nearly 400,000 doses of fentanyl, thousands of MDMA pills, and more than 5,000 kilograms of chemicals and precursors used in the production of controlled substances were seized at a clandestine drug lab on South Sumas Road in Chilliwack. According to an upda...

COQUIHALLA - A low-pressure system dumped significant spring snow on a number of major British Columbia highways, hampering travel through the Interior, including on the Coquihalla where 30 centimetres was recorded. Environment Canada says the overnigh...