November 2025

The Professional Women’s Hockey League and the Vancouver Goldeneyes make history this month, but 70 kilometres away Abbotsford recently had a significant women’s hockey moment of its own. While the Goldeneyes debut at the Pacific Coliseum on Friday (Nov. 21), Georgia Vallee will be wearing the “C” as captain for the Abbotsford Minor Hockey Association’s […]

A psychological thriller by a Summerland author is a finalist in the Canadian Book Club Awards for 2025. Every Fall, by Angela Douglas, is the story of a family’s struggle against unseen and all-too-real dangers. The story follows the lives of Bree, a former party girl turned stay-at-home mom, and Jake, a police officer whose

A bill that would place greater reliance on professionals during the building approvals process has passed second reading in the B.C. legislature. The professional reliance act, brought forward as a private member’s bill by Nanaimo-Lantzville MLA George Anderson to speed up development approvals, garnered full support from the B.C. NDP in a vote on Monday,

A Summerland musician has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Paul Rodgers, founding member of Bad Company and Free, was the only Canadian inducted into the Hall of Fame this year. Because of health concerns, Rodgers, 75, was not able to attend the ceremony in Los Angeles, but Canadian performer Bryan

Maple Ridge Concert Band will be joining forces with the Westview Secondary School Senior Concert Band for an upcoming concert called “A Cornucopia of Music”. All three programs of concert band will be performing including the ABC Beginner Band – a learning program for music reading and raw beginners wanting to learn how to play