A suspicious grass fire ignited in Dilworth Park on Wednesday at about 7:30 p.m., in what is considered a well-frequented area. According to Platoon Captain Scott Clarke, firefighters were mopping up after an early blaze that heavily damaged a home on Elwyn Road when reports began to come in of a grass fire near Chilcotin […]

Maple Ridge city hall will be glowing purple as part of the national Lights for Lupus campaign. This year landmarks in nine communities across the province will be decorated in purple lights, marking the largest-ever provincial show of support for World Lupus Day. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease and is often called “the disease

A deportation order has come the way of a Mexican national who told undercover police officers he was the “muscle” for a drug trafficking organization with ties to a notorious cartel, while bragging that he smuggled narcotics into Canada and disposed of bodies in the Vernon and Lavington areas. A recently published decision from the

Dear Editor, (Open letter to Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows MLA and Education Minister Lisa Beare) As a resident of Maple Ridge and a long-time homeschool mom, I’m deeply disappointed and frustrated to hear of the government’s recent decision to cut funding from Christian Homelearners eStreams (CHeS), without warning or reason. I am myself a homeschool graduate,

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is concerned after four grey whales have been found dead around Vancouver Island this month. “Two of those four dead grey whales were extremely emaciated. Never seen such poor body condition,” said Paul Cottrell, DFO marine mammal co-ordinator for the Pacific region. One of those starved whales was