Chilliwack News

Jack Foreman , scrutineer with Watson elementary's mock election for Student Vote B.C., helps Grade 4 students as they line up to vote on Monday morning.

A recent study in Ontario shows it costs a district at least an extra $75,000 a year to create a new French immersion class.

The pre-election confidence by the NDP in Chilliwack evaporated rapidly Tuesday evening as the polls began to come in.

By Tom Fletcher - Kootenay News Advertiser Published: May 15, 2013 6:00 AM Updated: May 15, 2013 6:43 AM B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark pulled an upset win Tuesday, defying the polls and pundits who started the evening talking about her exit strategy after a loss.

Surrey-Cloverdale B.C. Liberal MLA Kevin Falcon, who ran but failed to beat out Christy Clark for the party leadership, is among the retiring politicians who now receive generous pensions.

That was what six of the nine local provincial election candidates heard at an all-candidates meeting last Wednesday hosted by Pacific Developmental Pathways.

The future is bleak for an early French immersion program in Chilliwack. Ahead of a final vote on the option at Tuesday's public board meeting, superintendent Evelyn Novak has laid out the projected costs.

As waters of the Fraser River rise during the annual freshet, municipalities are collaborating on an integrated, regional approach to flood management.

A convicted fraudster's decision to skip his sentencing hearing and leave British Columbia backfired last Friday when he was handed a one-year jail sentence in Supreme Court.

Poet William Blake said, "Great things are done when men and mountains meet." In the misty foothills of Chilliwack, BC, there lives such a man.

A raging fire destroyed a Rosedale home late Sunday night. Firefighters arrived at the house, in the 51000 block of Old Yale Road, to find flames consuming both floors of a two-storey 1970s-era home.

Voters are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the province's 40th general election, as British Columbians determine who will lead the province for the next four years.

Chilliwack had one of the fastest-growing mid-sized economies in all of Canada between 2005 and 2012, according to a new report issued by the Conference Board of Canada.

A man fishing on the Fraser River snagged a body in his net over the weekend, but before the net could be hauled in, the body slipped away.

A search was launched Saturday after a body found by a fisherman slipped back into the Fraser River before it could be brought to shore.

Firefighters from several Chilliwack halls were on scene at a house fire in the 51000-block of Old Yale Road in Rosedale Sunday night.

B.C. Premier and Liberal Leader Christy Clark greets nuns during a campaign stop at the Mother's Day picnic at the Croatian Pastoral Centre in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday May 12, 2013.

Violinist Nicole Michalewicz is one of four students performing in the Stromberg Studio recital in Vernon Saturday before going to compete at the Provincial Music Festival in Chilliwack May 26 to 30.

Massive logs flew off a logging truck on the Golden Ears Bridge between Langley and Maple Ridge on Friday, causing traffic to back up on the morning commute.

Once believed to be a contender to displace the B.C. Liberal Party against the front-running New Democrats in next week's provincial election, the BC Conservatives now face grim returns at the ballot boxes, say a former party member and a political expert.