A Chilliwack man died accidentally two years ago due to brain damage caused by the lack of oxygen and due to the rapid breakdown of muscle tissue that led to massive organ failure, BC Coroner Vince Stancato ruled late Thursday.

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone spoke to Metro Vancouver business and civic leaders Thursday. Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone says the controversial congestion charge he forced on his city's motorists was a winning strategy to beat gridlock, but one that might be difficult to replicate here.

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 house fire erupted on Ryder Lake Road early Wednesday morning after a couch caught fire. Chilliwack Fire Department was called to the 48000-block in the pre-dawn hour of six a.m.

There is still some time left to submit your killer photo to the Vedder and Chilliwack River Conservancy Photo Contest by the deadline next week.

Chilliwack council voted Monday to lighten the load of expensive waste treatment fees being billed to Johnston Packers. The decision followed a city investigation starting in late July that traced a "high-strength" liquid discharge directly to the meat-processing plant on Promontory Road.

Recovering addict Cynthia Ward is so incensed by the imminent closure of the Chilliwack detox unit, that she’s collecting signatures for a petition to try and stop it.

others also read... Don Scaman was coming down the Bugaboo Spire in eastern B.C. with a team of fellow mountain climbers, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

VICTORIA – All B.C. residents are now eligible for the H1N1 influenza vaccine, and the provincial health officer is hoping that available supplies available around the province are used up as soon as possible.

Finance Minister Colin Hansen has extended an extra break for new homes from next year's harmonized sales tax. VICTORIA – The B.C. government is giving a bigger break to new home buyers in the latest move to ease the impact of next year's harmonized sales tax.

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.

Shane Neigum of the Chilliwack Bruins laughs while reading a poem to the students at La Vérendrye school on Tuesday morning. Neigum was there along with teammate Kevin Sundher and two Bruinettes to read to the school of 45 kids, as well as sign autographs, play floor hockey, and teach cheers.

Construction of headpond for Fitzsimmons Creek hydro project on Blackcomb Mountain, 2008. That project will soon be in service and BC Hydro is planning a large expansion of run-of-river and wind power around the province.

When Matthew Monosky moves out of his parents house he's going to have his own greenhouse.

The H1N1 flu virus is still circulating around, but the peak of serious new cases has passed. Seven more B.C. deaths are now blamed on the H1N1 flu virus, raising the total killed so far to 30.

Robert Knipstrom's father fought back tears yesterday as he described his son to a coroner's jury that's looking into his death two years ago after he was tasered, pepper-sprayed and hit with a metal baton by Chilliwack RCMP officers.

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others also read... Some motorists are still having a little trouble using the new two-lane roundabout at Evans Road, according to the head of the local RCMP traffic section.

others also read... Residents living near the new rail crossing at Evans Road are frustrated by incessant train whistles disturbing the peace.

Any defence was better than no defence against the rains Monday. The first big storm of the season has passed and a flood watch issued Saturday for parts of Metro Vancouver has also ended.