Environment Canada has issued a rain alert for Metro Vancouver, including Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. According to the national weather agency, an atmospheric river will be arriving on the south coast of B.C., bringing with it heavy rain overnight into Wednesday evening. Around 50 millimetres to 80 mm of rain is expected to fall. […]
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Crews are investigating the site of a minor rock slide on Highway 97, north of Summerland. The slide occurred on Monday, Dec. 8, around 4:30 p.m. While this is close to the site of previous rock slides, the Ministry of Transportation and Transit said the Dec. 8 incident is south of and unrelated to the
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The federal government introduced a justice reform bill on Tuesday (Dec. 9) that strengthens penalties for intimate partner violence by designating femicide and hate-related killings as first-degree murder. A history of abuse, sexual violence or coercive control would be used to make this determination. This is one of the changes sought by the family of
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Rent continues to get cheaper in Abbotsford, as well as many other parts of the province, with B.C. rental prices now sitting nearly seven per cent lower than a year ago. Unfortunately, even with such a large decline over the past 12 months, B.C. rental prices still remain the highest in the country. But the
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A “social media personality” organized a gathering of roughly 100 youth in Mission in which vehicles were driving dangerously, RCMP say. The Mission detachment said in a news release that the group of young people in vehicles gathered in the mall parking lot on London Avenue last Thursday (Nov. 27). Police said the vehicles driving
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