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SPCA investigators worked into Wednesday's early morning hours catching and processing numerous animals seized from a "hoarding situation" on Baldwin Road in Abbotsford.

One of three men charged in connection with a stabbing last August near the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre (AESC) has had three more offences added to his file.

The MSA Museum Society presented its vision of the future to council on Monday. The group is proposing the creation of a discovery centre which will encompass much of the Mill Lake area. The proposed site would feature a 7,000 square foot discovery centre and a 3,000 square foot outdoor covered staging area to compliment the current Trethewey House location.

A 10 per cent harmonized sales tax will cost an average B.C. family $255 a year less than returning to the former provincial sales tax, according to a new study.

Disappointed. That’s the one word Patricia Ross keeps saying when asked about Monday’s decision to allow the burning of garbage. The chair of the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a vocal advocate against incineration. When she heard the waste management plan for Metro Vancouver – that includes waste-to-energy incineration – was approved by the B.C. Environment Minister, she was shocked.

A 46-year-old traffic flag person working on Marshall Road was hit by a dump truck on Wednesday afternoon at about 4 p.m.

Abbotsford firefighters who were on the scene of a Pineview Avenue blaze on Thursday afternoon alerted police to a grow-op in an adjacent house.

BC Ferries is offering refunds for assured-loading passes that have expired.

The Abbotsford man presumed missing has located Chilliwack RCMP to advise authorities that he is alright.

Trees lie on their side, snapped off and left for dead. A pile of chain link fence has been ripped from it's frame and sits useless on the ground. Netting hangs limply by a thread from a nearby basketball hoop. Saddened neighbours look around Abbotsford's Berry Park, shaking their heads at the damage.