April 2026

Two upcoming concerts at Garibaldi Secondary School will have people swaying to the sounds of the jazz and concert band programs. On Monday, May 11, there will be a special outdoors Summer Send-Off Band Concert featuring all of the school’s band groups – Grade 8 Band; Grade 9 Jr. Band; Grade 10 Band; Sr. Band; […]

The ups and downs of the U.S. softwood lumber dispute have created a crippling decade of uncertainty for B.C. companies, particularly the value-added manufacturing sector. The Independent Wood Processors Association (IWPA) has put out a release analyzing the recent preliminary U.S. softwood lumber ruling now under review, noting “the dispute has become a broken process”

One man from Chilliwack and another from Coquitlam have been charged with multiple drug trafficking offences following an investigation that resulted in the seizure of drugs, cash and paraphernalia. The Public Prosecution Service of Canada approved several charges against Jerry William Lyons, 59, from Chilliwack and 33-year-old Kousha Vahabi Adl of Coquitlam on March 15.

A Maple Ridge company has developed a welding innovation that caught the eye of the city’s engineering operations team. TorchRite Solutions has designed and sells the Safe-T Torch system, now used by the city for safer and more efficient operations across both daily work and capital projects. A winner of the 2025 Maple Ridge Innovation

In light of high wildfire season coming up, B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) issued another warning concerning AI-generated images of wildfires. The warning came with a pair of images – one real, one fake, depicting an unspecified wildfire. The AI image, which showed greatly exaggerated billows of smoke with depictions of people practically inside the fire’s