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Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers’ annual Surrey Jail & Bail fundraiser has raised $12,295 so far to support youth and seniors’ education programs.
Flags at Surrey City Hall and all civic buildings will fly at half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026.
More than 1,100 people registered for the sixth RunSurreyRun at Holland Park on Sept. 12, with a new 10K course record and fundraising for eight local charitable and non-profit organizations.
Local non-profit organizations can apply by Oct. 5, 2026, for a share of $500,000 through Surrey’s 2027 Cultural Grants Program.
Doug McCallum pledges to pursue a second full-service hospital in Newton, while Mike Starchuk proposes commuter rail from Scott Road through Newton and Cloverdale to Fraser Valley.
The Dwivedi Foundation recognized 13 first responders at its seventh annual Surrey gala and marked the Vancouver Police Department’s 140th anniversary.
Ovila Mailhot’s animated work, Shifting Skies—Stories in Motion, will screen after dark at Surrey Civic Plaza through Oct. 23, 2026, and again in spring 2027.
Paul John Martin was convicted of killing his roommate, Robb Memory, in 2023 and will return to court Sept. 24 to set a sentencing-hearing date.
Firefighters found a deceased man inside a travel trailer engulfed in flames near 94 Avenue and 184 Street. Police are investigating the cause and whether the death was suspicious.
More than 100 people gathered at South Surrey Athletic Park on Sept. 20 for a five-kilometre Terry Fox Run supporting cancer research.
Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned as BC Conservative leader hours after Surrey-Serpentine River MLA Linda Hepner left caucus, reducing the party to 25 MLAs.
Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned as leader of the B.C. Conservatives after a 10th MLA left caucus, saying internal conflict had become a distraction from the opposition’s work.
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