March 2026

The B.C. government has introduced legislation to make it easier for officials to disregard or delay freedom of information (FOI) requests. Citizens’ Services Minister Diana Gibson claims this will enable requests to be met more quickly by a system overwhelmed by reams of data, but critics and transparency advocates are alarmed. One of those is […]

A Salmon Arm couple’s high-flying wedding was also rooted in Mount Ida as the ‘I dos’ coincided with the location of a significant discovery. The narrative of helicopter pilot and prospector David Fredlund’s love story was set back when he was a four-year-old child who accompanied his dad to mining camps after his mother became

The Abbotsford Canucks continue to be active in the college free agent market, as the club announced the signing of Clark Cup winning forward Bennett Schimek to a one-year AHL deal. The club shared details on Schimek on Wednesday (March 11), just one day after the inking of college free agent forward Austin Brimmer. Schimek,

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the RCMP discriminated against Indigenous survivors during the 2012 investigations of abuse claims at a day school in Burns Lake. The tribunal found that the complaint of discrimination was partially substantiated, and ordered the RCMP to pay damages to the survivors and review all of its policies,

The three men accused of killing two Abbotsford seniors in their home in 2022 will find out their fate on May 8. Justice Brenda Brown is scheduled to give her verdict that day in B.C. Supreme Court in Abbotsford for Khushveer Toor, Gurkaran Singh and Abhijeet Singh of Surrey. The three men are each accused