July 2026

Maple Ridge voters will decide whether the city can borrow $393 million for recreation projects, when they vote in local elections this October. The three projects are a new aquatics and recreation centre in Hammond, re-developing the Maple Ridge Golf Course into a 40-acre multi-use park, and adding two new sheets of ice at Planet […]

The Coastal First Nations alliance is applauding the new agreement struck between the B.C. and federal governments to uphold the ban on heavy oil tankers docking in the region, regardless of whether a new pipeline gets built. “Today is a good day,” said Chief Marilyn Slett of the Heiltsuk Nation, one of six in the

Mission’s Teresa (Gabriele) Kleindienst will be inducted into the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame this summer. Canada Basketball announced the 2026 class on Thursday (July 2) in a news release. Kleindienst will be recognized alongside nine others at a live induction ceremony in New Brunswick in August. The Heritage Park Secondary alumna boasts a long

B.C.’s director of civil forfeiture has filed a claim to seize a Honda Civic that is suspected to have been involved in a January extortion-related shooting in Surrey. The notice of claim was filed in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on June 19 against the owner of the 2004 Honda Civic, Damanveer Singh. On Jan.

The search is continuing for a fishing charter boat that capsized off the coast of Richmond four days ago. Richmond RCMP say the search efforts are continuing Thursday (July 2) with the RCMP’s Underwater Recovery Team and West Coast Marine Services to locate the vessel that sank near Roberts Bank on June 28. Police say