About a quarter of a million chum fry will be released across the Lower Mainland this spring thanks to a hatchery in Maple Ridge. And on Sunday, April 26, the public will be welcome at the Bell-Irving Hatchery in Kanaka Creek Regional Park to participate in releasing a portion of those fry at the annual […]
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Peter Milobar won’t parachute candidates into ridings for the next provincial election, should he be elected leader of the provincial Conservative party. Milobar, MLA for Kamloops Centre, stopped at Vernon’s Elks Hall Friday morning, April 10, to meet with about 25 folks gathered to hear him talk. The question about dropping in candidates from other
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In 1993, an investigation led by British Columbia’s chief coroner sounded the alarm after recording an “inordinately high number” of drug-related deaths, with 330 reported. More than two decades later, on April 14, 2016, a provincewide public health emergency was declared following a sharp and unprecedented spike in overdose deaths, which reached 997 that year.
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A single vehicle was involved in a “spectacular crash” in the East Surrey. On April 13, a car hit a traffic light pole at about 7 p.m. A Black Press Media freelancer at the scene said the incident occurred at 192nd Street and 54th Avenue in East Cloverdale near the Surrey-Langley border. Surrey emergency crews
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Surrey-Newton MLA Jessie Sunner announced her pregnancy on social media this week, saying she’s due to give birth late-summer. “With full hearts, we’re incredibly grateful and excited to be expecting and to step into this long-awaited next chapter,” Sunner posted on Instagram with an ultrasound photo. “I remain fully committed to serving as MLA for
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