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• Witnesses sought in purse-snatching incident

  Police are looking for witnesses to a purse-snatching Thursday morning in an alleyway between Second and Third Avenue near Young Road in Chilliwack.

• Boil water advisory at Lindell Beach

  The boil water advisory at Cultus Lake Village mobile home park has been lifted but another one has been issued for a park down the road.

• Headline News

  TEMPE, Ariz. -- Transportation equipment was among the fast growing sectors of the U.S. economy in August 2010, according to the latest manufacturing Navistar: Scrap current '10 engine rule; recall SCR trucks -- WASHINGTON -- After getting the EPA to admit that the 2010 emissions rules for SCR engines need some tightening, Navistar is now calling ...

• Parents call on drivers to slow down

  The driver of a vehicle that narrowly missed a pedestrian before slamming into a light standard has been airlifted to hospital.

• Bluegrass sound at Heritage Park all weekend

  G2 is a Nashville-based band coming to the Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival for Labour Day weekend.

• Cancer ride touches down at Sears

  The Sears National Kids Cancer Ride, which features 44 cyclists riding across the country from B.C. to Newfoundland, will touch down in Langley on Thursday.

• Bullet ends cougar carnage in Ryder Lake

  By Robert Freeman - Chilliwack Progress Published: September 02, 2010 10:00 AM Updated: September 02, 2010 12:55 PM A "perfect" shot through the heart Thursday morning ended a huge mountain lion's rampage in Ryder Lake that left 11 sheep dead, and parents in the rural area worried about the safety of their children waiting at bus stops for the ...

• Cost of Chilliwack city hall land deal investigation revealed

  The cost of the investigation into former mayor John Les, senior city bureaucrat Grant Sanborn and land deveopment deals at Chilliwack city hall was $172,643.41, according to the criminal justice branch of the B.C. attorney general.

• Down to earth with Brian Minter

  By Ana Macedo - Chilliwack Progress Published: September 01, 2010 1:00 PM Updated: September 01, 2010 1:56 PM Centuries ago, nature created one of the most beautiful settings in the Fraser Valley - " what would one day become Minter Gardens.

• Mom remembers the call & Terry's last run

  Betty Fox speaks the thousands of participants at the 2009 Terry Fox Hometown Run in Port Coquitlam.