A Coquitlam boy is back home in Canada, and set to suit up for his home team, the Vancouver Bandits, in the 2026 season. Dominic Parolin inked his first professional basketball contract with the Langley-based team on Thursday, joining the Canadian Elite Basketball League a little more than a month out from the Bandits’ season […]

Maple Ridge will be celebrating an important Sikh holiday next weekend. The Vaisakhi Samagam is a gathering to celebrate the Punjabi new year, the harvest, and the anniversary of the birth of the Khalsa in 1699. It will be held on April 12 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Memorial Peace Park (11930 224th

I remember on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped out onto the surface of the moon; the first human in the history of our species to do so. I was just five-years-old at the time but, as young as a I was, I understood the gravity of the event by how fascinated and

One Langford diver’s quest to see a variety of local ancient cloud sponges took him back to his technical roots, with a program reboot and stunning reward in the Saanich Inlet. Ryan Swan set out on a search for cloud sponges – a species of glass sponge known as aphrocallistes vastus – organisms built from

Homes sales and prices are down in Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and across the region, but local realtor Mike Huber said it’s actually a great time for people to get in the market. According to the Greater Vancouver Realtors (GVR), residential sales in the region are down 32 per cent from the 10-year seasonal average.