Dear Editor, [RE: LETTER – Can residents see festival cost-benefit analysis, Sept. 28, mapleridgenews.com] Dennis Kinsey should not be surprised to find that there is a lack of income in any cost-benefit analysis for the annual $350,000 expenditure of the Maple Ridge Our Neck of the Woods project. As I have commented in a previous […]
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Three Vernon golfers swung, chipped, putted, and shared their knowledge on their ways to provincial golf honours. The PGA of BC held its association’s 2025 provincial awards Oct. 28 at the Langley Events Centre. Coming home with glass hardware were Kyla Inaba of Predator Ridge, Bradlee Jones from the Vernon Golf and Country Club, and
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Kamloops RCMP locked down NorKam Secondary School and surrounding schools following a report of a person in a school with a gun on Thursday. According to police, officers responded to the school just before 2 p.m. “Out of an abundance of caution, the nearby schools were kept on a hold and secure until police could
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A man’s effort to beat a criminal charge of failing to provide a breath sample during a June 2024 RCMP traffic stop near Revelstoke came to an unsuccessful end at Salmon Arm Provincial Court. In an Oct. 30, 2025, decision, Judge Jeremy Guild determined the Crown had proven beyond reasonable doubt that Christopher Robert Mowbray
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An inmate at a maximum-security institution in Agassiz has been hospitalized following an assault incident on Monday, Nov. 3. According to a statement from Correctional Service Canada (CSC), a single assailant allegedly attacked a fellow inmate at Kent Institution. Staff members evaluated the victim and transported him to outside hospital for treatment. The Agassiz RCMP
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