Artist's rendering of the renovated Cheam Centre. others also read... The Leisure Recreation Group will operate the newly-renovated Cheam Centre, slated to open in April 2010, the City of Chilliwack said in a press release issued Tuesday.

An attempted armed robbery was reported at the Major League Pub in Rosedale Monday night, but no money was taken and no one was hurt.

Another 1.4 million doses of H1N1 vaccine are expected to arrive in B.C. over the next two weeks. Despite declining H1N1 flu activity, the virus killed four more B.C. residents and hospitalized 105 others over the past week.

others also read... It took a lot of negotiating, but it looks like the train whistles are finally going to be silenced at the new Evans Road crossing.

An illegal break-in is suspected in the blaze that erupted Monday morning in a vacant three-storey building slated for demolition at the old CFB Chilliwack property.

others also read... It might not look like much from the outside, but the new academic building for the Justice Institute of B.C. at Chilliwack’s Canada Education Park represents a toehold at the park that the JIBC plans to grow into a major instructional footprint.

Larry Gilmour, 55, unsuccessfully panhandles former federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion in downtown Victoria, where Dion attended a meeting on homelessness in November 2007.

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.