February 2026

For the fifth time in recent months, expectant mothers will be diverted away from the maternity ward at Ridge Meadows Hospital this week. The Maple Ridge hospital will have another maternity diversion, beginning Thursday, Feb. 26 at 8 a.m. until Monday, March 2 at 8 a.m. People in labour who had planned to give birth […]

The City of Delta quietly announced Monday that the Boundary Bay Airshow will not be going ahead this summer. Only three sentences long, the announcement came at the end of a Feb. 23 press release touting a trio of new “marquee events and community celebrations” aimed at “amping up” the city’s events calendar. “Unfortunately, the

In a 3-2 vote, council has agreed to authorize funding for the provincial archaeological permitting and construction required for the Hope Station House project. During Monday night’s (Feb. 23) meeting, council agreed to allow district staff to use funds from the Station House Reserve and, if needed, the Infrastructure Reserve for the work. This decision

A School District 23 teacher has been reprimanded by the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation after multiple issues of “professional misconduct”. Kelly Jean Hettinga, a teacher in the Central Okanagan school district and former volleyball coach, is being ordered to complete a professional boundaries course after his involvements in incidents involving a student being pantsed

A former Langley condo developer, recently released from a California prison where he was serving time for wire fraud, has been fined $75,000 by the B.C. Financial Services Agency. Between 2014 and 2017, Mark Chandler promoted and sold units in the Murrayville House condo complex, which was then under construction near Langley Memorial Hospital. Work