January 2026

For highway drivers throughout the rugged expanses of B.C.’s sprawling Interior, the most challenging time of the year has returned. A man with plenty of first-hand experience with those challenges has some words of wisdom for motorists venturing out this winter. Fire Chief Steven DeRousie of Revelstoke Fire Rescue Services (RFRS) says planning ahead, coming […]

Great Canadian Entertainment, the company that once owned Chances Maple Ridge, is selling off another of its B.C. properties – the latest one in Coquitlam. GCE, described as one of the biggest gaming operators in the country, is selling the Great Canadian Casino Vancouver in Coquitlam to the Snuneymuxw First Nation – the same group

Ahead of the heavy rains slated to hit the Lower Mainland between Saturday and early Tuesday, the team at Maple Ridge Museum dug into the archives for a related photo from the community’s massive photo album. They were able to locate this one. It depicts a flood-damaged picnic shelter at Maple Ridge Park (located at

Amid a recent sobering report from the B.C. government on climate-related disasters, Tsawout First Nation Councillor Mavis Underwood is finding hope in something small and close to home: a patch of seaweed. In June 2025, the Vancouver Island-based Tsawout became shareholders of Sidney-based Cascadia Seaweed, a company that cultivates kelp responsibly to create sustainable agricultural

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