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A motorist drives on a service road along the closed Trans-Canada Highway as floodwaters fill the ditches beside the highway and farmland in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. The Senate ...
It included failure of key dikes, and flooding on the scale of a one-in-500-year event – the size of the 1894 Fraser River flood. Costs of a coastal flood could hit about $20-billion, while a ...
Flood waters due to a series of atmospheric rivers last November inundated 15,000 hectares of land and affected about 1,000 farms and 2.5 million livestock.
The Fraser Valley Regional District has added properties along Jones Creek, Wahleach Creek and Lorenzetta Creek in Laidlaw to its list of communities under evacuation alert.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The British Columbia government says a new $20-million flood mitigation program for the Fraser Valley will help support farmers and food resiliency in prime agricultural areas ...
B.C. communities that lack up-to-date floodplain maps risk billions of dollars in property damage and even the lives of their citizens when disaster strikes, experts say. “The flood in Calgary ...
The swollen Fraser River is seen from the air near Chilliwack, B.C. Thursday, June 28, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward CHILLIWACK, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation that its chief ...
OTTAWA — The Senate committee on agriculture and forestry is calling for a comprehensive flood control plan for British Columbia's Fraser Valley following last year's catastrophic floods.
OTTAWA - The Senate committee on agriculture and forestry is calling for a comprehensive flood control plan for British Columbia’s Fraser Valley following last year’s catastrophic floods.
OTTAWA — The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is calling for a comprehensive flood control plan for B.C.’s Fraser Valley following last year’s catastrophic floods. The committee ...