April 2026

Let’s see the community Through Your Lens. We want to see Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge as you see it. Send us a photo showing how you view the community, and it could be featured in a future edition of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News. Please include the photographer’s full name and tell us where […]

What’s your plan for YPK airport – should activity increase, hold, or decline? Every candidate for local government should answer that question heading into our fall elections. Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge councils appoint the airport board, and the board sets the direction for how the airport operates. That responsibility was made clear at March

The recent sunny weather across the Eastern Fraser Valley and Interior has not been accompanied by warm temperatures, especially in one B.C. town. On Friday, April 24, Merritt was the coldest place in the province as temperatures dropped to -7.2 C. This broke a 102-year-old record, as the previous April 24 low in Merritt was

The Vancouver Rise FC fell to AFC Toronto 3-2 during the Northern Super League (NSL) season opener at Swangard Stadium Saturday night (April 25). The last time the two teams faced off was during the NSL championship in November, when Vancouver came away with the Diana B. Matheson trophy. Vancouver hosted AFC Toronto in front

There’s no reason to be hungry at the Ridge Meadows Home Show, with the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival, Ribfest, and the beer garden there to deal with any cravings. Jason Faria, owner of the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival, has been going to the show for five years, and so changed things up this