B.C.'s farming woes reach across sectors It's been a tough year for Fraser Valley farmers - mad cow disease, chicken influenza, closed borders, association with an alleged serial killer - it seems the blows just keep coming.
Chief sorry for slow 911 response Two 911 workers have been disciplined following a comprehensive review by the Abbotsford Police Department into emergency call response times.
Four staff members injured by inmate at Pacific Institution Correctional Service of Canada officials will look into an incident that involved a psychiatric hospital inmate who injured four Pacific Institution staff members in a scuffle March 15.
Drivers have trouble figuring out what a tank is going to cost They're up one day, down the next. Sometimes they seem to drop right after the tank is filled. They're gas prices in Abbotsford and they swing back and forth from pricey to cheap in a relentless cycle.
Robbery throws art gallery future in doubt A break-in at Kariton Gallery in Abbotsford early Friday morning resulted in
the loss of more than $22,000 worth of wood carvings and has left a local wood
carver struggling to come to terms with the robbery.
Mining company has solution to save swans A Langley mining company may have a way to clean up lead pellets in Judson Lake. The shallow 100-acre lake that straddles the Canada-U.S. border south of Abbotsford is suspected to be the source of the pellets that caused lead poisoning in more than 1,100 trumpeters swans since 1999.
Call for end to noise on blueberry farms Although the blueberry bushes aren't even blooming yet, the annual battle over noise devices used to scare away foraging birds is already ripening.
