Chilliwack News

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.

Tasered B.C. man Robert Knipstrom cried out "I love my family." before he died, a coroner's inquest in British Columbia has been told.

Yvonne Bouchard had only moved to Chilliwack from Winnipeg at the beginning of October and was still settling in with her three kids at The Vibe on Yale Road.

The effects of an apartment fire Wednesday morning could have been far more severe had it not been for the building's sprinkler system, says the Chilliwack Fire Department.

There's no flood risk for the Chilliwack River at this point, said Allan Chapman of the B.C. River Forecast Centre Monday morning.

The Real Estate Council of B.C. is investigating a brand-new HomeLife agent after the Langley man was charged in connection with a gangland extortion and aggravated assault.

A father and son charged with the first-degree murder of a runaway teenage girl from Abbotsford, whose body was found in a shallow grave outside of Hope, are headed to trial this month.

If you dream big, you can do almost anything. That's the message Canadian explorer Cameron Dueck had for some local private school students the last time he visited MEI Chilliwack on Young Road.

More details are emerging about the two men charged in the violent extortion and unlawful confinement at gunpoint last month.

A North Vancouver man charged with murder and facing deportation appears in court this week, beginning a process of preliminary and pre-trial hearings scheduled to stretch into next summer.

With Pearce's help, Chilliwack Speed Watch volunteers have checked over 60,000 vehicles in the past three years and logged over 1,400 hours of service making it "one of the most productive" crime prevention programs in B.C., according to the Solicitor-General's ministry.