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• Bullet ends cougar carnage in Ryder Lake

  By Robert Freeman - Chilliwack Progress Published: September 02, 2010 10:00 AM Updated: September 02, 2010 3:31 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 ...

• Too many no-shows, judge complains

  By Dan Ferguson - Surrey North Delta Leader Published: September 07, 2010 10:00 AM Updated: September 07, 2010 10:03 AM An irritated Surrey Provincial Court judge has complained that too many local lawyers are letting their clients skip trial confirmation hearings even though the rules of court say they shouldn't. A frustrated Judge Patrick Hyde ...

• Chilliwack makes top 10 in Ultimate Fishing Town contest

  Chilliwack has made the top 10 in a contest to find the best fishing town in the country.

• The motorman

  By Boaz Joseph - Surrey North Delta Leader Published: September 07, 2010 11:00 AM Updated: September 07, 2010 11:10 AM Stroll through downtown Cloverdale and you might spot a large granite statue of a man in a train conductor's cap and uniform looking at a pocket watch.

• Back to school; back to funding challenges

  Despite a $1.3 billion increase in education funding over the last 10 years, growing school districts like Chilliwack still face fiscal challenges, concedes B.C. Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid.

• Laying down the transit challenge for - Transit Week'

  The self-proclaimed "Chilliwack-tivist" has declared that Sept. 5-11 should be Chilliwack Transit Week.

• Barry Smith: Irrelativity

  Driving the Canadian highways for hours and days on end can make a man do crazy things.

• Salmon debate

  Sockeye surplus spawns debate Huge salmon run has scientists, fishermen wondering if it makes sense to hike harvest By TAMSYN BURGMANN The Canadian Press Sun, Sep 5 - 4:53 AM A sockeye salmon is reeled in by a fisherman on the Fraser River near Chilliwack, B.C. on Sept.

• B.C. woman desperately seeking biological father

  Michelle Gaddie at the age of 2. Her mother, Linda Gaddie, had a brief affair with a man posted to CFB Chilliwack in the summer of 1989, when she was 24, and ended up pregnant.

• Lives and luck converge on a lonely stretch of highway

  An accident on a remote stretch of Highway 1 just south of Lytton saw motorcycle rider, Tom Aitken, 44, of Chilliwack, fly into a ditch, breaking both bones in his lower leg.