The Chilliwack Progress

The Syilx Okanagan Nation is urging the federal government to issue an Emergency Protection Order for the endangered Southern Mountain caribou, warning that the remaining herds in its territory face extinction. ​Syilx Okanagan Nation previously petitioned the Government of Canada on June 1, making the request under Section 80 of the Species at Risk Act.

Ksi Lisims LNG has signed a major long-term sale and purchase agreement with another German energy company. The deal, announced by Ksi Lisims and Uniper on July 29, would see the Dusseldorf-based European energy supplier purchase two million tonnes per year (Mtpa) of liquefied natural gas from the proposed floating facility north of Prince Rupert.

Four people were arrested in three separate searches stemming from an investigation by B.C.’s anti-gang police into an under-construction drug lab in rural Abbotsford. Police searched three properties – the lab in Abbotsford and residences in Surrey and Enderby – on May 21 leading to the seizure of firearms, explosives and drugs, Sgt. Sarbjit K. Sangha told media during a Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit news conference in Surrey on Wednesday (July 29).

Salmo RCMP are asking for help after a 28-year-old woman went missing from the Shambhala Music Festival. Kayla Boisvert was last seen at the West Kootenay festival on Monday, July 27 around 2:15 a.m. She was reported missing on July 28. Boisvert is described as 6′ (183 cm) tall with black hair with long blonde braids and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue head scarf, oversize graphic T-shirt and multicoloured scarves.

A Vernon forestry company’s bid to reduce a $75,000 fine, incurred after it caused a landslide in the Shuswap, has been denied. Tolko will have to pay the full amount after the Forest Appeals Commission found the fine was reasonable, nearly a decade after a logging road Tolko built caused an estimated 11,500 cubic metres of debris to slide into Rosemond Lake, just south of Mara Lake, in 2017, according to a decision published by the Commission July 15.

The acquisition of Elements Casino in Chilliwack has been completed, and the transaction is being called a “transformational milestone.” A consortium group of certain communities from the Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe has acquired the casino from Great Canadian Entertainment. The Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe and Great Canadian Entertainment issued a joint statement on July 28 to announce this step in the process, which first was announced in November 2025.

The shuttering of Winnipeg’s Community Review means 200,000 households will no longer get the benefit of a free community newspaper delivered to their door. It also means that more than 800 people who deliver the paper and their families will be affected. This is an unforced error that never should have happened. How did we get here? The answer is complex. First, there is a high degree of concentration in the flyer printing market in Canada.

Safe Surrey Coalition and former mayor Doug McCallum are alleging foreign interference in the upcoming municipal elections in Surrey, Delta and Vancouver and are calling for a formal investigation into several social media accounts they believe are behind it.

A new protection order aims has come downstream to safeguard salmon. As severe drought conditions continue to affect river levels in the Thompson Okanagan region, a fish population protection order will help protect endangered chinook salmon in Salmon River by temporarily restricting water use for forage crops and identified industrial purposes. Government, local communities, farmers and partners have been working together to support water conservation and voluntary irrigation schedules.

B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says she doesn’t know where the information came from that alleges her MLAs were given a directive to no longer use the term ‘First Nations.’ “I don’t know where that came from, he presented no evidence. There’s been no such directive, and I think that is mere speculation and I really don’t comment on hypotheticals,” she told Black Press Media in a one-on-one interview Tuesday (July 28). “It’s simply not true.