Tyler Olsen

David Merner is campaigning to be the next leader of the Green Party of Canada.

Leadership candidate for federal Green Party to stop in Abbotsford today

David Merner to host a socially distanced campaign event at Mill Lake Park at 6 p.m.

David Merner is campaigning to be the next leader of the Green Party of Canada.
Black Press file photo

New ‘transitional program’ offered for Abbotsford parents as decision deadline looms

Abbotsford parents have until 4 p.m. on Friday to declare their plans for fall schooling

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Abbotsford resident Brook Morrison has not been seen since Tuesday evening. (Submitted)

UPDATED: Searchers discover body of Abbotsford man missing since Tuesday

Brook Morrison left home to go for a walk Tuesday evening

Abbotsford resident Brook Morrison has not been seen since Tuesday evening. (Submitted)
Renderings show a suggested design for an expanded Abbotsford Police headquarters.

Architects hired to firm up expected price tag for expanded Abbotsford police headquarters

City hands out $402,000 contract for pre-design work on expanded police HQ

Renderings show a suggested design for an expanded Abbotsford Police headquarters.
Wisebox Solutions CEO Colin Schmidt

Can a Fraser Valley company revolutionize the grocery food chain?

Local companies receive $1 million grant to kickstart direct farm-to-plate website

Wisebox Solutions CEO Colin Schmidt
Cascade Aerospace is based at Abbotsford International Airport.

Abbotsford company lands part of $374 million aerospace contract for U.S. military

Cascade Aerospace and Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group to maintain KC-130 transport aircraft

Cascade Aerospace is based at Abbotsford International Airport.
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. Ontario is reporting three new cases of the novel coronavirus today, bringing the total in the province to 18. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

Mission has had 158 people diagnosed with COVID-19 so far in 2020

The figure is predominantly due to the large outbreak at the federal prison

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. Ontario is reporting three new cases of the novel coronavirus today, bringing the total in the province to 18. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP
Abbotsford School District superintendent Kevin Godden

Abbotsford school district releases back-to-school plan

Districts had until August 26 to formulate plan for return of students to schools

Abbotsford School District superintendent Kevin Godden
A empty classroom is pictured at Eric Hamber Secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, March 23, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Not all parents may be told of COVID cases linked to their children’s school, health officials say

Focus will be on speaking to those 'considered likely or potentially exposed to COVID-19'

A empty classroom is pictured at Eric Hamber Secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, March 23, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
A empty classroom is pictured at Eric Hamber Secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, March 23, 2020.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Not all parents may be told of COVID cases linked to their children’s school, health officials say

Focus will be on speaking to those 'considered likely or potentially exposed to COVID-19'

A empty classroom is pictured at Eric Hamber Secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, March 23, 2020.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Abbotsford Senior Secondary school.

Abbotsford school officials to answer parent questions online Thursday

District must release back-to-school plan by Wednesday

Abbotsford Senior Secondary school.
Hundreds of agricultural properties are not complying with the city's bylaws, a 2016 review suggested. Truck parking is a frequent area of non-compliance, with many properties used to store more than the two trucks permitted under the city's rules.

Abbotsford aims to finally crack down on long-term bylaw-breakers

City boosts top fine for repeat offenders $50,000

Hundreds of agricultural properties are not complying with the city's bylaws, a 2016 review suggested. Truck parking is a frequent area of non-compliance, with many properties used to store more than the two trucks permitted under the city's rules.
Photo by Dale Klippenstein

POLICE/2020: Abbotsford Police Department much less diverse than city, despite recruitment efforts

40 per cent of city, but less than 15 per cent of police, are visible minorities

Photo by Dale Klippenstein
Abbotsford police are drawing and pointing guns more often use-of-force data show.Abbotsford News file photo

POLICE/2020: Abbotsford Police pointing their guns more often in 2020

At least two investigations under way after APD officers point guns at innocent men

Abbotsford police are drawing and pointing guns more often use-of-force data show.Abbotsford News file photo
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POLICE/2020: Street checks by police down in Abbotsford, but no plans to completely end them

Figures show street checks in Abbotsford relatively representative of city's population

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Abbotsford council

Abbotsford council pay rises – for now

New wage system leads to 10% wage hike for city's politicians, but pay cut could loom

Abbotsford council
Gardens can be a form of art, Abbotsford Coun. Brenda Falk says. (Pixabay photo)

Public art budgets could be used for gardens, Abbotsford councillor suggests

'Gardens really are art,' Coun. Brenda Falk says

Gardens can be a form of art, Abbotsford Coun. Brenda Falk says. (Pixabay photo)
Navee Thandi says he feared for his life when he was stopped at gunpoint by police while at work in mid-June.

Plainclothes Abbotsford police officer deletes cellphone video after drawing gun on innocent man

'They never asked me what I was doing there, strictly came out with guns, threatening to shoot me'

Navee Thandi says he feared for his life when he was stopped at gunpoint by police while at work in mid-June.
Navee Thandi says he feared for his life when he was stopped at gunpoint by police while at work in mid-June.

Plainclothes Abbotsford police officer deletes cellphone video after drawing gun on innocent man

'They never asked me what I was doing there, strictly came out with guns, threatening to shoot me'

Navee Thandi says he feared for his life when he was stopped at gunpoint by police while at work in mid-June.
Protestors invaded Abbotsford’s Excelsior Hog Farm on April 30 after PETA released a video from an anonymous source six days before. (Ben Lypka/Abbotsford News)

Four activists face charges linked to 2019 Abbotsford hog-farm protest

Mischief and break-and-enter charges laid for incidents on four separate days prior to the protest

Protestors invaded Abbotsford’s Excelsior Hog Farm on April 30 after PETA released a video from an anonymous source six days before. (Ben Lypka/Abbotsford News)