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• Grizzly killed after attacking man, injuring B.C. conservation officer

  02-11-2018 01:00 via abbynews.com
  
  A man was attacked while running his dogs along Wycliffe Forest Service Road on Oct. 20, B.C. Conservation Officer Service said.
  
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• Hawaiian Shirt Gala in Abbotsford raises $63K for mental health services

  16-10-2026 19:09 via abbynews.com
  
  A recent fundraiser in Abbotsford raised more than $63,000 for mental health support.
  BeMorr Society held its fifth annual Hawaiian Shirt Gala on Sept. 26 at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Centre.
  Money raised at the event goes toward the organization’s Mental Wellness Program, helping individuals and families access counselling and mental wellness services when they need them most.
  “Raising over $63,000 is an incredible achievement, and I am deeply grateful to everyone who made th
  
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• Memorial Cup brings in $50.9M for Greater Kelowna

  16-10-2026 19:04 via abbynews.com
  
  The 2026 Memorial Cup generated a record amount of money for Kelowna, according to the Canadian Hockey League (CHL).
  In a Friday, Oct. 16 press release, the CHL stated that the tournament, which was held in Kelowna in May, brought in $50.9 million, the largest recorded economic impact for a Memorial Cup host community.
  “We’re thrilled at the results of the economic impact study. We saw the excitement throughout the tournament, and it’s incredibly rewarding to see that reflected
  
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• Abbotsford 2026 advance voting up 93 per cent from 2022

  16-10-2026 17:28 via abbynews.com
  
  Advance voting has seen a significant increase for the Abbotsford municipal election, as polling numbers obtained by The News show an increase of almost 5,000 votes compared to early voting in 2022.A total of 10,142 votes have been cast over the three 2026 advance voting days on Oct. 7, 10, 11. The 2022 election saw 5,251 ballots cast during early voting on Oct. 5, 6, 7 and 8. The jump in advance voting participation from 2022 to 2026 is more than 93 per cent.View this post on InstagramA post sh
  
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• VIDEO: Collaborative work sets stage for revival of famous Shuswap sockeye run

  16-10-2026 17:15 via abbynews.com
  
  “In my lifetime I’ve seen extremely stable runs you could depend on every year. Now, everybody hopes that some salmon will come back.”
  These opening words by former Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw Kukpi7 (Chief) James Tomma set the tone for Ashes in the Current: hope and recovery in British Columbia’s most famous salmon river, a short film recently released on YouTube by the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF).The film is about the Adams River, the impact the 2023
  
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• ‘Sharp cold front’ to bring high winds, fall storm to Eastern Fraser Valley, Okanagan, Cariboo regions

  16-10-2026 16:28 via abbynews.com
  
  Wind and snow and thunderstorms, oh my.
  A little bit of nearly every kind of weather is expected on Saturday, Oct. 17 in the Eastern Fraser Valley, Okanagan, and Cariboo regions, including the Coquihalla Highway (Hope to Kamloops), Okanagan Connector, and Highway 3 (Hope to Princeton via Allison Pass), prompting Environment Canada to issue a special weather statement on Friday morning. The only area not impacted is the Chilcotin area, including Kamloops and Ashcroft.
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• Advance voting for B.C. election begins today

  16-10-2026 13:00 via abbynews.com
  
  British Columbians can head to the polls beginning today for advance voting in the provincial election.
  Advance voting begins Friday, Oct. 16 and continues for six days until Wednesday, Oct. 21. Voting places are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., local time, each advance voting day.
  Elections BC will publish advance voting turnout statistics throughout the advance-voting period. The statistics will be available on its website.
  Elections BC says advance voting is open for all eligible voters, and most
  
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• BC Place party: Bruno Mars shows how it’s done in first of record 5 concerts

  16-10-2026 05:27 via abbynews.com
  
  There is a show, and then there’s a SHOW, all caps.
  Wednesday (Oct. 14) was the first of five nights of concerts for American entertainer Bruno Mars at BC Place, and boy, did he put on a SHOW, a two-hour party full of dazzling lights, tight choreography, A-list musicianship, fireworks, fire, confetti and old-Vegas charm.
  It started a record run of concerts at the Vancouver stadium for any musical artist, eclipsing Taylor Swift’s three concerts there in 2024 and The Jacksons’ th
  
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• BC Place party: Bruno Mars delights in first of record 5 concerts there

  16-10-2026 05:27 via abbynews.com
  
  There are shows, and then there are capital-letter SHOWS.
  Wednesday (Oct. 14) was the first of five nights of concerts for American entertainer Bruno Mars at BC Place, and boy, did he ever put on a SHOW, a two-hour party full of dazzling lights, tight choreography, A-list musicianship, fireworks, fire, confetti and old-Vegas charm.
  It’s a record run of concerts at the Vancouver stadium for any musical artist, eclipsing Taylor Swift’s three concerts there in 2024 and The Jacksons&rsqu
  
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• DNA evidence connects to suspect in Surrey murder trial, jury hears

  16-10-2026 04:12 via abbynews.com
  
  DNA expert Janny Lau testified at the second-degree murder trial of Adam Troy Mann Thursday in New Westminster Supreme Court.
  Mann is accused of fatally stabbing Surrey’s Tori Dunn in June of 2024 during an alleged home invasion in Surrey’s Port Kells neighbourhood. He listened quietly throughout the day’s proceedings, as did many of Dunn’s family and friends, including her boyfriend at the time of her death with whom she shared the home, Trafford Wace.
  A forensic biologi
  
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• Tkachuk nets 3 as Florida Panthers rally to edge Vancouver Canucks 3-2

  16-10-2026 03:55 via abbynews.com
  
  Brady Tkachuk scored three times, carrying the Florida Panthers to a come-from-behind 3-2 overtime win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks Thursday at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.
  Seth Jones had a pair of assists for the winners (4-2-2), while Akira Schmid made 15 saves to earn the win in goal.
  Liam Öhgren and defenceman Elias Pettersson replied for the Canucks (2-6-1), while goalie Leevi Merilainen was outstanding, making 36 saves.
  The Panthers carried the play early in the first pe
  
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• Police need help to solve rural Surrey homicide

  16-10-2026 02:07 via abbynews.com
  
  Police are seeking witnesses that can help solve a homicide on a rural Surrey road.Sergeant Freda Fong, a spokeswoman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said October 15 that a “caller” alerted police to what’s believed to be a man’s body in rural Fleetwood, in the 6100-block of 156 Street, near a pull-off beside a farmer’s field shortly after 1 p.m. on October 14.“Criminality is suspected,” she said. Investigators are trying to identify the
  
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• NDP leader makes brief Langley visit

  16-10-2026 01:40 via abbynews.com
  
  NDP leader David Eby made a brief campaign stop in Langley on Thursday, Oct. 15, where he met with local candidates and volunteers.
  The incumbent premier addressed supporters at the campaign office of Langley-Willowbrook NDP candidate Andrew Mercier. Mercier and Langley-Walnut Grove candidate Holly Isaac were both on hand.
  Eby gave a brief speech, talking up his party’s plans to regulate grocery prices for essentials, and to keep car insurance low.
  He also took a few potshots at BC Conserv
  
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• Open letter warns of hospital specialist exodus over Interior Health policy

  16-10-2026 01:30 via abbynews.com
  
  In an open letter from members of the South Okanagan medical community, Interior Health is being called out for driving away the only neurologists stationed at Penticton Regional Hospital.The letter lays out how the three neurologists at PRH filed their resignation papers following IH moving to require them to provide expanded after-hours on-call coverage beyond just the South Okanagan, without any increase in compensation.
  The three local neurologists will finish their time at the hospital in N
  
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• Kelowna drag star gets approval to push forward with defamation suit

  16-10-2026 00:40 via abbynews.com
  
  A defamation suit filed against Action4Canada is allowed to proceed.Justice Hardwick ruled in BC Supreme Court in Kelowna on Sept. 1 that Tyson Cook, also known as drag star Freida Whales, may continue with his suit claiming defamation by Action4Canada after the organization publicly opposed drag story time.Cook filed the suit on Dec. 19, 2024, alleging Action4Canada published false statements about Cook. The suit also names Graeme Flannigan, Tammy Ann Mitchell, Tori Olason and Person A as havin
  
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• Trio of Conservatives back out of scheduled Abbotsford provincial candidates debate

  15-10-2026 23:55 via abbynews.com
  
  A provincial candidates debate scheduled for the University of the Fraser Valley has been cancelled after all three Conservative Party of British Columbia candidates withdrew their previously confirmed participation.The event, which was set to occur on Monday (Oct. 19) was supposed to feature Abbotsford South, Abbotsford West and Abbotsford-Mission candidates from both the BC NDP and the Conservatives.The Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce and the UFV Student Union Society shared the news of the deb
  
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• Chilliwack mayoral, council candidates call for province to honour healthcare promises

  15-10-2026 23:52 via abbynews.com
  
  Chilliwack municipal candidates are calling on provincial candidates to pledge their support for health-care improvements in the city if elected.
  Jason Lum, a mayoral candidate who serves on the Fraser Valley Hospital Board, issued a call to Chilliwack MLA candidates to commit to bringing an MRI to Chilliwack General Hospital, with the project beginning within one year, and to reinstate the Bradley Centre redevelopment project.
  “Chilliwack is growing, our population is aging and our health
  
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• B.C. Conservatives remove Vancouver candidate after alleged Hitler posts

  15-10-2026 23:44 via abbynews.com
  
  The B.C. The B.C. Conservative Party announced it is dropping Vancouver-Strathcona candidate Jordan McIntosh after the NDP’s Vancouver-Quilchena candidate Callista Ryan accused him of posting online about Hitler and the Holocaust using an anonymous account under the moniker “DeathNight.”
  Ryan posted screenshots of the posts on Thursday (Oct. 15), in which DeathNight is shown saying that Hitler did not specifically hate Jews, and that “Lots of Jews died because there were
  
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• Conservatives promising to build a women and children’s hospital in Surrey if elected

  15-10-2026 23:16 via abbynews.com
  
  The Conservative Party of BC appears to have borrowed an election promise from Surrey mayoral candidate Doug McCallum to see a third hospital built here if it wins the provincial election.
  The party’s leader, Lorne Doerkson announced October 15 that if a Conservative government is elected on October 24 it would build a new Women and Children’s Hospital in Surrey “so families no longer have to travel an hour or more into Vancouver for care.”
  Toggling back to the October 17
  
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• Conservatives pledge to scrap new Massey Tunnel, build bridge instead

  15-10-2026 23:08 via abbynews.com
  
  Conservative Party of BC Leader Lorne Doerkson says if his party forms government, they would abandon plans to build a new eight-lane tunnel to replace the aging George Massey Tunnel in favour of a 10-lane bridge.
  The party issued a press release Thursday morning (Oct. 15) committing to a 10-lane George Massey Bridge, completing the Surrey Hospital in Cloverdale (already underway and set to open in early 2030), and building a new Women and Children’s Hospital in Surrey.
  Original plans by t
  
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• More police, prosecutors: CentreBC unveils public safety plans

  15-10-2026 22:55 via abbynews.com
  
  CentreBC is promising to hire 500 additional RCMP officers and 60 Crown prosecutors over five years as part of a provincewide safety plan announced in Surrey today (Oct. 15).Party leader Elenore Sturko, who is running in Surrey South, outlined CentreBC’s commitments outside Surrey Provincial Court, joined by members of her party, ahead of the Oct. 24 provincial election.“This is something near and dear to my heart,” said Sturko at the beginning of her announcement.Sturko explai
  
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• Abbotsford provincial election candidates respond to questions

  15-10-2026 22:16 via abbynews.com
  
  A total of 19 candidates are vying to be MLAs in Abbotsford’s five ridings in the provincial election on Saturday, Oct. 24. The Abbotsford News asked them to answer the following questions (the last two in 50 words or less): 1) What is your occupation?’) Where do you live? 3) Why should electors vote for you? 4) What are your top two issues?
  ABBOTSFORD SOUTH
  LEAH BALLANTYNE (NDP)
  1) Advocate, lawyer, consultant and adviser
  2) Fraser Valley
  3) I’ve spent 26 years solving problem
  
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• Grants offered for senior services and research in Fraser Valley

  15-10-2026 22:03 via abbynews.com
  
  The Maplewood Care Foundation is now accepting proposals for funding of up to $50,000 for community-based seniors services and research in Abbotsford and the eastern Fraser Valley.
  Several grants of up to $20,000 are available, with some limited grants available up to $50,000 for 12 months (December 2026 to December 2027).
  Applications are being accepted until Nov. 2 at 3 p.m. for the Local Impact Grants for community-based organizations whose work addresses social isolation and loneliness among
  
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• Central Okanagan Search and Rescue manager to speak on international stage

  15-10-2026 21:13 via abbynews.com
  
  Search and rescue training and practices is a world-wide effort, and now, a local member is getting to speak on an international stage.
  Duane Tresnich, search manager for Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR), left for Reykjavík, Iceland on Wednesday, Oct. 14 as he’s been invited to be a guest speaker at the 18th annual Rescue26 International Search and Rescue Conference.
  “Duane will speak about the important connection between search and rescue and social media, explorin
  
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• Police identify woman found dead at Central Saanich landfill

  15-10-2026 20:40 via abbynews.com
  
  A woman found dead at a Central Saanich waste disposal facility has been identified, police say.
  Central Saanich Police announced the update on Wednesday, one day after officers responded to a report of a body found at the facility.
  Efforts are underway to notify the woman’s next of kin, police said in a media release.
  The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit (VIIMCU) continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death, with assistance from Central Saanich Police.
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• COLUMN: B.C. flu and COVID vaccine rollout is too little, too late

  15-10-2026 20:10 via abbynews.com
  
  Where are B.C.’s vaccines?
  Influenza A and COVID are already spreading. Another flu season in B.C., another round of vaccination arriving too late.
  Last week, the Provincial Health Officer finally announced that flu vaccination for the higher risk population will start on Oct. 13. Thereafter the general public will be receiving vaccination notifications until early November.
  Of course, Dr. Bonnie Henry is well aware that it takes another two weeks after vaccination for full antibody protec
  
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• Eby vows to cut $45 charge for low-income seniors bus pass, bring in Surrey Charter

  15-10-2026 19:40 via abbynews.com
  
  BC NDP leader David Eby was in Surrey on Thursday morning (Oct. 15) for another campaign event as the B.C. election date nears.A Chevron gas station on 120 Street is where Eby and other NDP candidates gathered for two transit-related promises and a vow to give Surrey its own charter.If re-elected, Eby said the NDP would eliminate the $45 charge for low-income seniors to get a bus pass, and would commit to have Bus Rapid Transit run from Surrey to White Rock with $250 million in funding for a pro
  
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• Abbotsford rent reaches highest point in past 6 months

  15-10-2026 19:32 via abbynews.com
  
  September marked back-to-back months of rising rental prices in Abbotsford, with average asking prices now reaching the highest point since February.
  The latest report from Rentals.ca revealed that Abbotsford prices increased from $1,772 in August to $1,819 in September, marking a 2.7 per cent monthly increase.This brings the city to an unfortunate milestone of having the highest average rental asking price in the past seven months. The last time Abbotsford had a monthly decrease in rent was bac
  
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• Kelowna athlete to be inducted into the Volleyball BC Hall of Fame

  15-10-2026 19:23 via abbynews.com
  
  Known as one of the most dominant middle blockers in Canadian volleyball history, former Kelowna Senior Secondary and UBCO athlete Marisa Field has been named to the Volleyball BC Hall of Fame for the class of 2026.
  ​Field helped the UBCO Thunderbirds win back-to-back CIS National Championships in 2008 and 2009, en route to earning the 2009 May Brown Trophy as UBC’s Outstanding Graduating Female Athlete.
  ​On the international stage, Field represented the Senior National Team fo
  
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• Chad Cowie seeks school board seat in Abbotsford

  15-10-2026 18:48 via abbynews.com
  
  Chad Cowie is running to become an Abbotsford school trustee in the municipal election on Saturday, Oct. 17.
  Cowie is a father of two Abbotsford public school students, a local business owner, and an educator with approximately 20 years of teaching experience in Canada and internationally.
  He holds degrees from Simon Fraser University and Trinity Western University and has served as treasurer of the Yale Secondary parent advisory council.
  Cowie’s campaign – “Higher Standards, B
  
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