Calls to return Sumas Prairie to Sumas Lake amid flooding challenges

What we now think of as the Sumas Prairie, used to be something very different. As Paul Johnson explains, researchers say the ...

B.C. Flood Live: Power out in Sumas Prairie with wind, rain returning | Flood warnings for Sumas River and North Shore

Get the latest updates on road closures and evacuation orders after another atmospheric river hit the area, with more rain on ...

Flooding expected in parts of B.C.'s Fraser Valley, North Shore Mountains amid rainfall warnings

The power is out for thousands in B.C.'s Lower Mainland Monday morning and flooding is expected in parts of the Fraser Valley ...

B.C.’s heavy rain leaves hundreds on evacuation alert, order, flood warnings remain

Environment Canada has issued an orange rainfall warning for the City of Abbotsford, due to heavy rain expected, and crews ...

More evacuation orders downgraded in Abbotsford but rain and wind warnings issued across B.C.

Rainfall warnings are back in effect for B.C.'s flood-soaked Fraser Valley. Several other regions of the province are also ...
Canada's National Observer

Fraser Valley flood cleanup begins, as rain swells BC rivers

The cleanup is starting in British Columbia's Fraser Valley as water that flowed across the border from the Nooksack River in ...
Canada's National Observer

'High impact' warning as heavy rain returns, causing more flooding concerns in BC

The Seymour River reached a 50-year high on Monday — and it's still rising — and parts of Metro Vancouver are under a new ...
The Vancouver Sun on MSN

'We don't need to live this way': Fraser Valley farmer pleads for federal government support after flooding

A couple of centimetres was the difference as floodwaters reached Corry Spitter’s farm on the Sumas Prairie, sparing his ...
KTVB

Flooding situation 'stable' as flooding north of Sumas as pump station remains operational

ABBOTSFORD, BC — Washington state officials continue to monitor conditions within the Sumas Prairie north of the Canadian border as flooding escalates and poses a "significant risk to life." The ...
The Vancouver Sun

Repairing the Sumas Prairie will be expensive and require new thinking

Richard Bosma scrambled to get his cows to safety when flood waters submerged his fields and flowed into his barn this week, one of many Abbotsford farmers who have endured a hellish week since last ...