Five homes evacuated as massive boulder rolls into Agassiz

AGASSIZ — Five homes have been evacuated in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley over concerns about the stability of a giant boulder that slid down into a residential community last month.
The District of Kent says in a news release that 22,000-kilogram rock came from a bluff above the homes in the community of Aggassiz on Nov. 5.
Officials say crews have been working with a geotechnical engineer to access the site, but bad weather has impeded the process.
The district’s mayor, Jo