Five Corners News

Many are talking about light rail and whether there's a future for the old B.C. Electric Railway line in moving people around the Fraser Valley.

Mike Harvey and Mike Mason, two accomplished authors and former newspaper men, will be autographing their new books at two seperate events during the coming week.

A white mini-van is seen passing through the intersection at Five Corners at about 12:14 p.m. as four people cross the street, one on a BMX bike.

Local supporters of the so-called "Prince of Pot" are holding a rally in downtown Chilliwack Saturday as part of an international campaign on Sept.

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Firefighters closed a bar and convenience store after a woman crashed her car into a 1,000-gallon propane tank near the Orchards area of Vancouver.

A knee-high white cloud of propane gas hugs the ground after a minivan crashed into a 1,000-gallon tank in Five Corners on Friday night, prompting the evacuation of two businesses.

Vancouver firefighters and sheriff's deputies began large-scale evacuations in the Five Corners area late Friday night after a woman crashed a car into a 1,000-gallon propane tank in the 7600 block of Northeast 94th Avenue.

SASKATOON a ' In 1997, it was "the Fringe that ate Broadway." Today, it looks like the Fringe that joined Weight Watchers.

Bob Brawdy/Herald staff - KID workers are monitoring the main canal in Badger Canyon where a large leak threatens a breach that would send water flowing into some homes downhill.

Council decisions matter. The antics and policies and personalities in Ottawa and Victoria get a lot more press, but local government is where the rubber really hits the road in terms of shaping communities.

They may be young, but the members of Old Mana s Beard already have a fair amount of musical experience between them.

A quick-acting grandmother saved her grandson from drowning Thursday. The youngster was pulled from a South Surrey pool near 172 Street and 20 Avenue around 3 p.m. The six-year-old was not breathing, said Adrian Kroll, district supervisor for B.C. Ambulance Service.

Entertainment will be the order of the day at a Five Corners Block Party Saturday, presented by the White Rock Business Improvement Association in conjunction with Tour de White Rock criterium.

In Washington, certain kinds of wells for certain uses such as domestic, stockwater and some manufacturing and noncommercial, can be drilled and used without a permit.

A group known as "Five Corners Family Farmers" has filed a lawsuit over a controversial cattle feedlot that may be built in Franklin County near Eltopia.

The folding knife had a 3 1/2-inch blade. Police said the man holding it was at gunpoint, but kept yelling, "Let's do this!" A Taser dropped the suspect, who'd been followed Monday night after allegedly stealing a ball from a Tukwila supermarket.

Police in Tukwila shot a man who they said displayed a knife and stabbed a police dog after a foot chase Monday night.

A water right transfer has been approved for a planned feedlot northeast of Eltopia that could hold up to 30,000 cattle, the state Department of Ecology announced Thursday.

The Chilliwack Service Canada Centre for Youth will host its annual Hire A Youth Week from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 12.

What was that ? Much of Vancouver got an ear-splitting wakeup call Friday morning.