Music from a few dozen windchimes hanging in the trees above children’s graves at Maple Ridge Cemetery have been muted forever. Handpainted beach rocks placed carefully around the gravestones of some of the 50 or so kids – in the same dedicated children’s section of the cemetery – have vanished. Flower – both live and […]

Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is a money-making machine. Over $2 billion dollars ($2.076 to be exact) in economic output was generated by the City-owned airport in 2024, according to a study by the City of Kelowna. Economic output is calculated by taking the aggregate of labour income and other expenditures which can be considered as

A documentary that was four years in the making will première one year into the renewed political tensions at the Canada-U.S. border. Award-winning filmmaker Ying Wang is showcasing her documentary The Border on Jan. 24 in Vancouver as part of the interplay 2026 festival. Wang says the documentary is fitting as political tensions continue to

Mounties are asking for help to locate a missing woman last seen in Maple Ridge late in the year. Shannon Samms was last seen Monday, Dec. 29, in the 21600-block of Lougheed Highway about 4 a.m. that day. Since then, there’s been no word or sightings of the 37-year-old woman, said Ridge Meadows RCMP. On

A Surrey city councillor feels she didn’t do anything wrong when she alerted Surrey Police Service Chief Const. Norm Lipinski about concerns regarding impairment checks outside of Morgan Creek Golf Course — and other Surrey golf courses — last summer. Coun. Linda Annis, who is running for mayor in the 2026 municipal election, said she