When long-term care worker Amy Hache first met her senior client Aline Bossons four years ago, they clicked. Hache and the now 83-year-old Bossons developed a strong friendship, so strong, they referred to one another as cousins. Then, last year they started talking about their family surnames and discovered they had three surnames in common […]

A man has been arrested following a homicide and fire at a homeless camp in Abbotsford on Friday evening. Abbotsford Police Department and Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service were called to the fire around 6:09 p.m. on April 24 at the encampment located on provincial land in the 31500 block of South Fraser Way. The fire

Let’s see the community Through Your Lens. We want to see Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge as you see it. Send us a photo showing how you view the community, and it could be featured in a future edition of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News. Please include the photographer’s full name and tell us where

What’s your plan for YPK airport – should activity increase, hold, or decline? Every candidate for local government should answer that question heading into our fall elections. Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge councils appoint the airport board, and the board sets the direction for how the airport operates. That responsibility was made clear at March

The recent sunny weather across the Eastern Fraser Valley and Interior has not been accompanied by warm temperatures, especially in one B.C. town. On Friday, April 24, Merritt was the coldest place in the province as temperatures dropped to -7.2 C. This broke a 102-year-old record, as the previous April 24 low in Merritt was