January 2026

“Our Feathered Friends” will be the first exhibit of 2026 at the Pitt Meadows Art Gallery, opening this Saturday, Jan. 24. This exhibition is a limited edition series created by printmaker Molly Gray. Each piece has been meticulously hand-carved and printed to scale, and they celebrate the rich diversity of bird species found throughout British […]

In December 2024, the City of Maple Ridge officially opened its new film kiosk, joining Toronto and Vancouver as the cities in Canada to have this infrastructure to serve the film industry. The waterfront lot between the Fraser River and Haney Bypass is now a place where production crews can power up their operations, rather

B.C.’s health-care system is still far behind national benchmarks for cancer care wait times, despite the province pouring in new money and hiring scores of additional staff. Wait times for some types of treatment are decreasing, but the overall picture shows B.C. falling behind the rest of Canada. The longest waits are to get an

There were 211 black bears killed in B.C. – the lowest number killed in more than a decade, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service says. The service released the 2025 statistics Thursday (Jan. 22), noting it was a 65-per-cent drop from 2023 and the lowest overall number since the B.C. Conservation Officer Service predator statistics were

A prolific criminal who pleaded guilty to an attempted robbery in Surrey has dodged a dangerous offender designation that would have carried indeterminate incarceration but instead was found to be a long-term offender warranting a determinate prison sentence followed by long-term supervision. Justice Barbara Norell presided over the case of Christopher David Prokopchuk in B.C.