Improved conditions have led the City of Abbotsford to lift evacuation alerts for 1,069 properties in Sumas Prairie West and Sumas Prairie East, as well as downgrade 160 other properties from evacuation order to evacuation alert. The changes were announced by the city in a press release on Saturday (Dec. 13) evening. Evacuation orders are […]

The West Coast Express Santa Train was rolling on Saturday, Dec. 13, and had one of its best donation days every. The Santa Train leaves Mission Station on Saturday mornings, making stops along the way to Waterfront Station in Vancouver, and allowing riders to offer new, unwrapped toys as their train fare. The toys go

One person is dead following a single-vehicle collision in Abbotsford on Saturday morning (Dec. 13). Police responded to a call of a collision at 11:30 a.m. in the 28000 block of Huntingdon Road. “Emergency crews arrived to find a single vehicle that had rolled off the roadway into a water-filled ditch,” noted an Abbotsford Police

The annual Firefighters For Families donation drive for Christmas charities in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows is under way on Saturday, Dec. 13. The boot drive is happening at high traffic locations across the two cities, with the promise of thousands to be donated later this week, when the CPKC Holiday Train rolls into the

Another atmospheric river is on the way for the coastal areas of B.C. and the Fraser Valley, with rain expected to start late Saturday and continue through the week. Vancouver Island, the North Coast, and areas of the Central and South Coast are expected to receive the heaviest rainfall on late Sunday into early Tuesday,