March 2026

Police watchdog investigating crash in Maple Ridge involving anti-gang unit

The province’s police watchdog is looking for witnesses to a car crash involving the province’s anti-gang agency, that happened in Maple Ridge before Christmas. The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) is investigating an incident on Dec. 17, when a man driving an older model blue Volvo sedan was involved in a collision with a […]

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White Rock hospital set for 8th maternity diversion since December

White Rock’s Peace Arch Hospital is set for another maternity diversion — its eighth since December, and fifth diversion in 2026. The latest ‘temporary’ diversion is set to start this Thursday, March 12 at 8 a.m. and last nearly a week, until 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 18. Maternity diversions have been happening at both

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RCMP investigating ‘threat-related behaviour’ involving North Okanagan students

Police and School District 83 are responding to “threat-related behaviour” involving students of Pleasant Valley Secondary School (PVSS) in Armstrong. In a letter received Wednesday afternoon (March 11) by PVSS and Falkland Elementary School parents, school district Superintendent Donna Kriger said the RCMP have been in contact with the “families of students identified,” and that

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