Students who love hockey can go to school on the sport. The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows School District is hosting a pair of upcoming zoom sessions about its hockey academies. Parents can learn about the programs and ask questions. A session for the Pitt Meadows secondary academy will be held on Monday, Jan. 26 at 7 […]

Some Vancouver Island event producers are worried about how a limited Meta experiment could eventually affect their ability to market their events. As of early 2026, Meta is experimenting with restricting certain Facebook users to only two external link posts per month unless they have a paid Meta Verified subscription, which starts at $11.99 per

B.C.’s decades-long real estate boom has finally petered out. Developers are scaling back, putting projects on pause and trying to limit losses. Construction activity is slowing down here in British Columbia, and especially in the Lower Mainland, in a way not seen in a generation. As fewer buildings go up, a bigger crisis is looming

An alleged drug dealer with Lake Country ties was recently arrested in Costa Rica. According to CR Hoy, a news publication in Costa Rica, 35-year-old Jesse Michael Valentino Bou-Saleh was caught by The Costa Rican office of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) with help from the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) on Thursday, Jan. 22.

An early morning shooting in Surrey on Saturday, Jan. 24 has left one man dead and another transported to hospital with gunshot wounds. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has taken over investigation of the shooting, which happened in the 12500-block of 91 Avenue at about 4:55 a.m. Saturday morning. Surrey Police Service officers called