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Abbotsford city council will be considering a property tax increase that ranges between 1.5 to 4.3 per cent during the 2012 budget process.
 
 
 
Love reached its destination late Friday afternoon at the Abbotsford airport, as Dan Berg carried out the elaborate marriage proposal to his sweetheart Hanna Dosa, just as he planned.
 
 
 
When Rosemary Forseth took her car into the shop to deal with a flat tire last week, she was horrified to find her car was just one of many that had been vandalized while parked on McCallum Road in Abbotsford.
 
 
 
Police rescued an Abbotsford woman held hostage by a marauding goat that trapped her in her home Monday afternoon.
 
 
 
Abbotsford Police have issued a public warning about a man convicted for posing as a police officer on Facebook in attempts to lure youth for sex.
 
 
 
The Abbotsford fire department is crediting a trio of quick thinking neighbours for making sure an apartment fire didn't get out of control on Saturday night.
 
 
 
Abbotsford Agrifair needs additional funding from the city or it faces closing its gates after more than 100 years in the community, say organizers.
 
 
 
An Abbotsford teacher and union executive has launched a surprise challenge to Susan Lambert's presidency of the B.C. Teachers' Federation (BCTF).
 
 
 
Ledgeview Golf course is in danger of closing if it doesn't get financial support from the City of Abbotsford, council was told Monday night.
 
 
 
A transformer fire at a BC Hydro's Atchelitz substation just east of Abbotsford left tens of thousands of people without power this morning.
 
 
 
Abbotsford and Mission teachers are wearing black on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of provincial legislation that resulted in the death of the union's right to negotiate class size and composition during bargaining.
 
 
 
From the night of her honeymoon through her 13-year arranged marriage, Kamal Dhillon was beaten, raped, ridiculed, starved, hung and doused by kerosene by a husband who then cruelly taunted her with a packet of matches.
 
 
 
A Vancouver billboard questioning the social value of art inspired Davida Kidd to dive into her latest project.
 
 
 
Kinder Morgan must provide more information to the city and to the community when oil spills happen, like the one that occurred at its Sumas Mountain terminal last week, said an Abbotsford city councillor.
 
 
 
Abbotsford Agrifair needs additional funding from the city or it faces closing its gates after more than 100 years in the community, say organizers.
 
 
 
The AHL's Chicago Wolves drew large crowds into the Abbotsford Arts and Entertainment Centre this week to face the hometown Abbotsford Heat. The Canucks farmhands topped their hosts 3-2 to open a two-game set Tuesday (Wednesday's result wasn't available by press time).
 
 
 
Abbotsford city council rejected an increase in the number of slot machines at a community gaming centre on Monday night without hearing from the community first.
 
 
 
An estimated 110,000 litres of crude oil were captured in a containment area at Kinder Morgan's oil storage facility on Sumas Mountain early Tuesday morning and mopped up later in the day, said a company spokesperson.
 
 
 
An admitted gangster whose fiancee was killed in an attempt on his life in Abbotsford in 2010 has been sentenced in Surrey Provincial Court to four and a half years behind bars.
 
 
 
Abbotsford got $890,000 dollars on Tuesday in flood protection funding from senior levels of government that will go upgrades at the Barrowtown Pump Station.
 
 
 
Up to one-quarter of adult British Columbians have such low literacy skills that they have trouble with simple reading tasks, says a literacy advocacy spokesperson.
 
 
 
Residents outraged by the city's new seasonal water rate system flooded an Abbotsford city council meeting on Monday night.
 
 
 
Abbotsford city council rejected an increase in the number of slot machines at a community gaming centre without hearing from the community first on Monday night.
 
 
 
The Abbotsford Police Department has warrants attached to these individuals that were outstanding as of 10 a.m. Wednesday. If anyone has information on the whereabouts of these individuals, call the department at 604-859-5225 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
 
 
 
Mission district council approved a budget Monday night of up to $100,000 to conduct a core services review.
 
 
 
Inspirational speaker Spencer West and a Me to We workshop will open the Building Community Leadership series this Saturday at the Clarke Foundation Theatre.
 
 
 
The Abbotsford District Teachers' Association is organizing a demonstration Thursday afternoon to remind the public that teachers are still on strike and working without a contract.
 
 
 
The City of Abbotsford’s P3 Stave Lake water bill came due at Monday’s council meeting.
 
 
 
The Abbotsford Heat hope to howl into a new era of sellouts with tonight's arrival of the Vancouver Canucks' revamped farm team, the Chicago Wolves.
 
 
 
Despite a thick blanket of snow on the landscape and temperatures pushed down to – 17 C or colder by arctic winds last week, a tiny hummingbird sits on Ken Summers’ deck in Abbotsford, warming his toes in a towel and sipping heated nectar on apparatus that includes an electric frying pan.
 
 
 
 
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