November 2025

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 […]

Speaker Raj Chouhan broke a tie in the B.C. legislature on Wednesday evening on a major energy bill, with the government again pushing through its agenda without the support of the NDP’s sometime partner, the B.C. Greens. Like Bills 14 and 15, the controversial energy and infrastructure bills that passed at the end of the

Help-Portrait Ridge Meadows is back for its 13th year, offering free, professional family photos for anyone in need. Each year volunteers come together including: hair stylists, makeup artists, photographers, editors, framers, and other general volunteers, to put together the event. Those who show up for a portrait will get a mini makeover before posing for

“We Are Not Garbage — We Are People” – Voices From Inside the Tiki Village Eviction. Sherry Campbell, 56, is one of those voices. Campbell is one of about 40 residents of Vernon’s longstanding Tiki Village Motel – the ‘Gem of the Valley’ it still reads on its marquee at the corner of 25th Avenue

A man was stabbed in Chilliwack early Thursday morning (Nov. 20) and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Chilliwack RCMP said officers were called to Ruth and Naomi’s Mission for reports of the stabbing at approximately 2:30 a.m. The man was taken to hospital via ambulance upon arrival. Police say the man was uncooperative and