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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 […]

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

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

A professional truck driver from Abbotsford allegedly tried to cover up the smell of alcohol by lighting a candle after he was stopped by police on Dec. 4. An RCMP press release issued on Tuesday (Dec. 9) said the incident occurred at about 9 a.m. that day, when the driver was pulled over in Fruitvale

A Fort St. James man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2022 shooting death of John Lazarre. On Feb. 25, 2022, Fort St. James RCMP officers were called to reports of shots fired on Spruce Road. According to police, when officers arrived, they found 36-year-old John Lazarre deceased. Thomas Duncan, now 33,