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MAP: Where to go on a rainy spring day

MAP: Where to go on a rainy spring day

Our list, and map, of some of the best Fraser Valley outings, inside and out, when the rain is coming down.

Joti Grewal
Joti Grewal
To move a wetland: The pitfalls and opportunities of swampy offsets
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To move a wetland: The pitfalls and opportunities of swampy offsets

As developers promise to create new ponds to replace those they destroy, wetland offsets face some of the same hazards of carbon offsets.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
How to become a champion plower: lessons from the 100th Chilliwack Plowing Match

How to become a champion plower: lessons from the 100th Chilliwack Plowing Match

Plowing is more than just a way to get fields ready for planting. At the Chilliwack Plowing Match, it's an annual competition of skill and technique.

Grace Kennedy
Grace Kennedy
Floodgates, international politics, and the case for a new $700 million pump station

Floodgates, international politics, and the case for a new $700 million pump station

Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun has suggested American governments should cover part of the cost of a $700 million new pump station.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
CHARTS: Cooled off or not, the Fraser Valley remains a home-sellers’ market

CHARTS: Cooled off or not, the Fraser Valley remains a home-sellers’ market

With the supply-demand equation still tilted in favour of sellers, most homes continue to sell in less than two weeks.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
What we learned about the changing valley from our first panel

What we learned about the changing valley from our first panel

Four panelists shared their expertise and thoughts in a discussion on how the Fraser Valley has changed, and what is to come for the region. Here is what they had to say.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
A golden flower, and the blossomed legacy

A golden flower, and the blossomed legacy

Englishman and horticulturalist Fenwick Fatkin had the idea to move to the valley in the 1920s and plant daffodil bulbs. The idea grew into a farm and the birth of the Bradner bulb industry, and one of the longest-running events in the Fraser Valley.

Joti Grewal
Joti Grewal
Abbotsford says taming Nooksack River could cost up to $2.8 billion

Abbotsford says taming Nooksack River could cost up to $2.8 billion

With no guarantees Americans will bolster banks, Abbotsford considers massive upgrade of Barrowtown Pump Station in case of future flood

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
The tiny Fraser Canyon First Nation with big plans to help fire evacuees

The tiny Fraser Canyon First Nation with big plans to help fire evacuees

‘We’re going to do it anyway. Because we’re the Kanaka Bar Band.’

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
Not just a collection: the mission behind Chilliwack’s archives

Not just a collection: the mission behind Chilliwack’s archives

A 21st Century archive has a purpose beyond collecting and organizing documents. It needs to have a mission.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
Funding insufficient to save BC’s ‘deteriorating’ schools, province warned repeatedly

Funding insufficient to save BC’s ‘deteriorating’ schools, province warned repeatedly

An annual assessment found that current levels of funding are insufficient to keep up with mounting school repair bills in newly unredacted documents released to The Current.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen
Mission: more rental homes, finally

Mission: more rental homes, finally

After lagging behind neighbours, townhomes and rental apartments are finally taking shape in Mission.

Tyler Olsen
Tyler Olsen