Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows School Board is looking to establish a Student Advisory Committee. The purpose of the committee will be to give secondary students more of a voice when it comes to governance matters in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows school district. School board chair Elaine Yamamoto noted they are early in the process […]

Salmon Arm RCMP found no evidence of wrongdoing in a beat around a bush. On Oct. 22, a woman called police to report a neighbour was killing a bush on her property. The caller alleged this was devaluing her home, which was for sale. “Police attended and spoke with the woman who showed police some

A high streamflow advisory is in effect for the parts of the province, including the Fraser Valley, south coast and Lillooet River The B.C. River Forecast Centre issued the advisory on Thursday morning (Nov. 13) for Lower Fraser tributaries, as well as tributaries around Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast, Sea-to-Sky and North Shore Mountains. According to

A single adult needs to make a higher wage to live in Nelson than they do in Vancouver. That’s among the revelations in an annual report by Living Wage BC released Nov. 13 that calculates the rate that a full-time worker in a given community must earn to cover basic expenses and participate in community

The BC RCMP is increasing police resources to address the ongoing extortion crisis in the Lower Mainland’s South Asian community – an issue it says is “not the work of a single individual or crime group.” In Surrey alone in 2025, there have been 95 reports of extortion and 45 shots fired in extortion-related incidents