Both the Pattullo and Stal̕əw̓asəm bridges will be closed for a week starting at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, meaning no direct connection for vehicles between Surrey and New Westminster. The B.C. government warned of the bridge closures weeks ago, and now an exact date is posted on the Pattullo Bridge Replacement website. Full closure […]
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Crews from 19 Wing Comox responded to a medical emergency about 100 km south of Haida Gwaii on Jan 25. Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue crews dispatched from 19 Wing Comox on Vancouver Island attended the emergency on a CH-149 Cormorant, supported by a CC-295 Kingfisher. A crew member aboard a fishing vessel was
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The Ridge Meadows RCMP are praising their police volunteers for identifying a suspected impaired driver. Police said a recent incident highlights the valuable support volunteers provide as an “extra set of eyes and ears in the community” for police. On Jan. 17, at approximately 8:30 p.m., police received a report of a three-vehicle collision on
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Rentals – be they short- and/or long-term – have caught the attention of a Vernon councillor. Kari Gares put forth a pair of motions that – with council’s unanimous blessing (though councillors Brian Quiring and Kelly Fehr were absent from the regular meeting Monday, Jan. 26) – will make their way in the spring to
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An unsettling act of sexual assault alleged against horses by a strange man has left the owner, and broader community, shaken. Abigail Equestrian, a professional training facility on L&A Road in the BX, says an unknown man trespassed early Saturday, Jan. 24. “He was in with my horses in the middle of the night and
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