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For the fifth time in recent months, expectant mothers will be diverted away from the maternity ward at Ridge Meadows Hospital this week. The Maple Ridge hospital will have another maternity diversion, beginning Thursday, Feb. 26 at 8 a.m. until Monday, March 2 at 8 a.m. People in labour who had planned to give birth […]

In a 3-2 vote, council has agreed to authorize funding for the provincial archaeological permitting and construction required for the Hope Station House project. During Monday night’s (Feb. 23) meeting, council agreed to allow district staff to use funds from the Station House Reserve and, if needed, the Infrastructure Reserve for the work. This decision

The City of Delta quietly announced Monday that the Boundary Bay Airshow will not be going ahead this summer. Only three sentences long, the announcement came at the end of a Feb. 23 press release touting a trio of new “marquee events and community celebrations” aimed at “amping up” the city’s events calendar. “Unfortunately, the

A School District 23 teacher has been reprimanded by the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation after multiple issues of “professional misconduct”. Kelly Jean Hettinga, a teacher in the Central Okanagan school district and former volleyball coach, is being ordered to complete a professional boundaries course after his involvements in incidents involving a student being pantsed

The recent outbreak of cartel violence in Mexico has many tourists rethinking their holidays. On Sunday, Feb. 22, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Army in Tapalpa, Jalisco. El Mencho’s death sparked a wave of cartel violence, with gunmen targeting law