Chilliwack News

An accident that killed three farmworkers in Abbotsford in 2007 did not deter another driver from overloading a van with labourers just days later, B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair told a coroner's inquest in Burnaby Wednesday morning.

The family pets were the unfortunate victims of a blaze that destroyed a small Vedder Mountain Road home Saturday afternoon, as cold weather and high winds played havoc with firefighters' efforts to put out the fire.

Jesse Blue West, 56, a long-haul truck driver from Victoria, and his son Dustin Blue Moir, 24, from the Lower Mainland, are facing first degree murder charges in connection to the death of Chesley Acorn whose remains were discovered outside of Hope in April 2006.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. a ' A B.C. trucker and his son had sex with a 14-year-old runaway before they both strangled her to death, the Crown told the court Monday on the first day of their murder trial in this Fraser Valley city.

The Chilliwack Fire Department had a busy Monday, responding to three fires, including two arsons, in a short time span.

The responsibilities of Chilliwack's school trustees have been reshuffled. Trustee Silvia Dyck was elected new board chair in a special meeting held Tuesday evening.

Getting the H1N1 flu vaccine in Chilliwack should be easier now as more clinics are being held and, if Saturday's clinic at Vedder middle school is any gauge, demand seems to be on the wane.

Chilliwack RCMP are investigating the third robbery in the past two weeks involving the use of a firearm.

A father and son are seated a few feet apart in Chilliwack Supreme Court on the opening day of their first-degree murder trial in the death of 14-year-old Chelsey Acorn, but have refused to acknowledge each other.

A 40-year-old Chilliwack man was killed Saturday when his vehicle apparently skidded on a wet and slippery section of Hwy Five just north of Raft River Bridge near Clearwater, B.C. Police said driver Joseph Miller apparently lost control at about 3:30 p.m. and the vehicle went down a steep embankment, hitting a tree and then rolling over.

Local politicians from every level were at the Canada Education Park Friday for the offiical opening of a new, if temporary, academic building for the Justice Institute of B.C. . Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon MP Chuck Strahl, MLAs John Les and Barry Penner and city councillors were on hand with JIBC representatives to cut the ribbon on the $373,000 ...

A building scheduled to be demolished burns at the former Canadian Forces base in Chilliwack.

Chilliwack RCMP are looking for someone who tried to hold up pub in the Rosedale area Monday evening.

As Sarah walks down the hallways of her school, she can feel the judgmental eyes boring into her.

A fire broke out in a building under renovation on the old CFB Chilliwack site, east of Vancouver, on Tuesday morning.

Robert Knipstrom's post-arrest death was an accident linked to "excited delirium," a B.C. coroner ruled Thursday night.

Being at France's Juno Beach on Remembrance Day 2009 was nothing like the Allied assault on Juno Beach of 1944.

The death of a man in Chilliwack RCMP custody two years ago was accidental, but police and paramedics should get extra training to deal with people displaying "excited delirium," a coroner's inquest jury has found.

A local man and woman were charged with five counts each of break and enter this week in connection with a series of residential and business B&Es in Chilliwack.

A lethal dose of the "feel good" drug Ecstasy - not repeated jolts of electricity from Tasers in the hands of Chilliwack RCMP officers - was the main cause of Robert Knipstrom's death, a forensic pathologist told a coroner's jury Wednesday.