April 2026

An Earth Day school reunion is being planned in Maple Ridge. Organizers of the annual Celebrate Earth Day Festival are inviting anyone who attended, taught at, or worked at a school in Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows to gather at the Earth Day ReConnect Reunion taking place in Memorial Peace Park on Saturday, April 18.

Better batten down the hatches … or, at least, ensure loose patio furniture covers are not potential hazards. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Metro Vancouver Monday night into Tuesday morning (April 6-7), including Surrey, White Rock, Delta, and Langley as well as the rest of the Lower Mainland. Strong and gusty

A man charged with a Maple Ridge homicide and an Abbotsford shooting has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Alexander Delair was sentenced Wednesday (April 1) in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. With credit for time served, Delair has another 12.5 years left on his sentence. He was initially charged in August 2024

The Ridge Meadows Flames won their third straight Pacific Junior Hockey League championship in dramatic fashion, with a 4-3 comeback win over the Langley Trappers on Thursday night, April 2. Veteran forward Cohen Muc scored twice in the second period to give the Flames a 2-0 lead, but the Trappers came back, and with just

After several years at venues all across the Lower Mainland, the It’s Bigger Than Basketball fundraiser is returning home to Abbotsford for 2026. The seventh edition of the mental health fundraiser occurs inside Yale Secondary on Saturday (April 18). The fundraiser debuted back in 2018 with the first game taking place inside Abbotsford’s Robert Bateman