A parade of festively decorated vehicles will be winding its way through Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows for the sixth annual Christmas Convoy. There will be two convoys, one for each community, the first on Saturday, Dec. 20, and the second on Sunday, Dec. 21. And, until then organizer organizer Laura Faye will be collecting […]
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The City of Abbotsford has reported that floodwaters in Sumas Prairie and Huntingdon Village are expected to peak overnight on Thursday (Dec. 11) and water is likely to reach Highway 1 on Thursday evening or Friday (Dec. 12) morning. The City said that this is based on data from the 1990 flood event. Evacuation orders
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A B.C. nurse who lives in Maple Ridge was suspended for one week for inappropriately touching a student. According to the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwifes, Salendra Kumar touched the student inappropriately on two occasions between December 2023 and April 2024. Kumar is a licensed practical nurse whose primary employer is listed by
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Despite falling rents and stabilized home prices, a group of angry Metro Vancouver mayors is calling on the B.C. government to back off on some of its signature housing policies. “The province’s housing legislation has been one of the most ill-conceived, poorly thought-out policy initiatives that this province has ever suffered under,” Port Coquitlam Mayor
The reigning Western Conference-champion Vancouver Whitecaps have re-signed Penticton-born goalkeeper Isaac Boehmer, the Major League Soccer club announced on Dec. 8. Boehmer’s new deal will see him stay in his home province through the 2027 season, with a club option for 2028. The 24-year-old was born in Penticton and resided in nearby Okanagan Falls. A
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