Castor and Lyra had a close call, but the bear cub siblings are now being raised at Critter Care Wildlife in Langley, and are scheduled be released back into the wild this summer. Maple Ridge’s nature lovers anxiously watched a tragic story play out online and in the media, as a mother bear was killed, […]

Evan Hammond, the voice of the Alberni Valley Bulldogs for more than 20 years, has died. Hammond suffered a medical emergency on Wednesday, Dec. 31 and died in hospital on Jan. 2. He was 45. Hammond’s death has reverberated around the hockey community, as many teams with the B.C. Hockey League have posted their condolences

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Local authors will be reading from their books at a Maple Ridge coffee and tea shop. Jack Emberly, Stephen Garrett, Ashley McLean, Kimiye Kawashima Triggs, will be featured at the next Local Author event at Bean Around Books and Tea. The event will be taking place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan.

A Grand Forks man has lost his appeal of a trafficking conviction over a claim his Charter rights were violated by an unreasonable detention when he was forced to wait almost two hours for a drug sniffing dog to arrive at the scene of the incident. Jessie Adam Makortoff had initially filed the Charter of