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Fraser Health is setting up a Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) at Abbotsford Regional Hospital in order to help treat inmates from Mission Institution. They are also creating a designated, secure site at the hospital for those who have tested positive. / File Photo

Mobile Medical Unit set up at Abbotsford Hospital to help treat Mission inmates

Fraser Health also creating a secure site at hospital; 41 positive tests at institution so far

Fraser Health is setting up a Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) at Abbotsford Regional Hospital in order to help treat inmates from Mission Institution. They are also creating a designated, secure site at the hospital for those who have tested positive. / File Photo
UPDATED: Firefighters battle downtown Mission blaze

UPDATED: Firefighters battle downtown Mission blaze

Dark, black smoke can be seen coming from Warcraft Games on First Ave.

UPDATED: Firefighters battle downtown Mission blaze
Mission Institution now has 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the highest in any federal prison in Canada.

UPDATE: There are now 35 inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19 at Mission Institution

Mission has more positive test results than any other federal prison in Canada

Mission Institution now has 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the highest in any federal prison in Canada.
Two residents at Mission’s Chartwell Cedarbrooke Retirement Residence have been diagnosed with COVID-19. / Kevin Mills Photo

Mission has two confirmed cases of COVID-19 at care home

Two residents at Chartwell Cedarbrooke Retirement Residence have been diagnosed says Fraser Health

Two residents at Mission’s Chartwell Cedarbrooke Retirement Residence have been diagnosed with COVID-19. / Kevin Mills Photo
Arson charge laid in connection to Mission Canadian Tire fire

Arson charge laid in connection to Mission Canadian Tire fire

Charges of Arson with disregard for human life have been laid against 26-year-old Quince Chalifoux

Arson charge laid in connection to Mission Canadian Tire fire
Cassandra Converse holds the only pair of shoes she managed to recover from Mission’s Value Village in February 2020. Her boyfriend accidentally gave away 50 pairs of hers. Submitted Photo

Man accidentally donates girlfriend’s 50 pairs of shoes to B.C. thrift store

Cassandra Converse has forgiven him, but she jokes that this Valentine’s Day better be pretty special

Cassandra Converse holds the only pair of shoes she managed to recover from Mission’s Value Village in February 2020. Her boyfriend accidentally gave away 50 pairs of hers. Submitted Photo
Newspapers, hockey cards discovered in Mission school’s forgotten time capsule

Newspapers, hockey cards discovered in Mission school’s forgotten time capsule

Capsule opened in front of students from West Heights Community School

Newspapers, hockey cards discovered in Mission school’s forgotten time capsule
VIDEO: Asphalt plant protest takes place outside Mission City Hall

VIDEO: Asphalt plant protest takes place outside Mission City Hall

Group from Steelhead oppose proposed project, want public hearing reopened

VIDEO: Asphalt plant protest takes place outside Mission City Hall
Fire breaks out at Mission wharf

Fire breaks out at Mission wharf

Crews extinguished blaze that broke out along Fraser River on Monday

Fire breaks out at Mission wharf
Vis stresses need for unity after Conservative leader resigns

Vis stresses need for unity after Conservative leader resigns

Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon MP said he was shocked by Andrew Scheer’s announcement

Vis stresses need for unity after Conservative leader resigns
UPDATED: Mission man dies at CP Rail yard in Coquitlam

UPDATED: Mission man dies at CP Rail yard in Coquitlam

Kirk Charles McLean had been working as a locomotive engineer and had 32 years of experience

UPDATED: Mission man dies at CP Rail yard in Coquitlam
VIDEO: Thieves hit Mission store twice in six days

VIDEO: Thieves hit Mission store twice in six days

$50,000 worth of merchandise taken from Prospect Equipment, theft captured on security video

VIDEO: Thieves hit Mission store twice in six days
Man involved in murder of Mission couple granted day parole after serving less than three years

Man involved in murder of Mission couple granted day parole after serving less than three years

Victims’ parents express grief, outrage over parole board decision

Man involved in murder of Mission couple granted day parole after serving less than three years
Complaint filed about Mission Liberal candidate’s billboard, mailer

Complaint filed about Mission Liberal candidate’s billboard, mailer

Brad Vis’ Conservative campaign has raised some issues regarding Jati Sidhu’s campaign

Complaint filed about Mission Liberal candidate’s billboard, mailer
An all-candidates meeting for the federal riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon took place at the Clarke Theatre in Mission on Wednesday night. Five of the six candidates (from left to right) Nick Csaszar, People’s Party of Canada, Brad Vis, Conservative, Jati Sidhu, Liberal, John Kidder, Green and Michael Nenn, NDP attended the forum. Marxist-Leninist candidate Elaine Wismer did not participate. / Kevin Mills Photo

Mission candidates talk sewer pipe, climate change

Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon riding hopefuls meet to debate issues

An all-candidates meeting for the federal riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon took place at the Clarke Theatre in Mission on Wednesday night. Five of the six candidates (from left to right) Nick Csaszar, People’s Party of Canada, Brad Vis, Conservative, Jati Sidhu, Liberal, John Kidder, Green and Michael Nenn, NDP attended the forum. Marxist-Leninist candidate Elaine Wismer did not participate. / Kevin Mills Photo
Local candidates discuss homelessness, political promises

Local candidates discuss homelessness, political promises

Only four of the six Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon candidates were present at the meeting

Local candidates discuss homelessness, political promises
While the name of the victim of a fatal car crash has not officially been released, she has been identified on social media as Mission Secondary School student Lindsey Sunder.

Victim of fatal car crash identified as 17-year-old Mission Secondary student

School officials organize support team for students and teachers

While the name of the victim of a fatal car crash has not officially been released, she has been identified on social media as Mission Secondary School student Lindsey Sunder.
Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon candidates talked climate change, child care and poverty at Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting

Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon candidates talked climate change, child care and poverty at Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting

Five candidates took part in question-and-answer session at UFV’s Abbotsford campus

Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon candidates talked climate change, child care and poverty at Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting
Federal candidates answer questions from UFV students

Federal candidates answer questions from UFV students

Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon candidates talk climate change, poverty and more

Federal candidates answer questions from UFV students
Mission needs major funding to avoid an ‘environmental disaster’

Mission needs major funding to avoid an ‘environmental disaster’

Sewer pipeline from Mission to Abbotsford could break at any time, new one has to be built soon

Mission needs major funding to avoid an ‘environmental disaster’