The Cowichan Tribes land title claim was back in court on Friday as Montrose Properties seeks to have the case reopened. Montrose’s lawyers say the company was not made aware of the implications of the case before it went to trial. But the opening salvo related to this new application belonged to the First Nation. […]

In Loving Memory ~ Passed away peacefully on January 19th, 2026. Born in 1941 and raised in southern Alberta, Dorethy graduated from nursing school in 1962. She moved to Maple Ridge, BC, shortly thereafter, to work at the town’s newly built hospital. She married Doug five years later. She took great pride in being a

Dr. Marco De Ciantis has been to the type of places that most Canadians will never see. He has traveled to remote villages where there is no medical care, no electricity, no running water. He has spent tens of thousands of dollars to sleep in odd places, skip meals and endure physical discomforts. But the

For Jess Kryski, an exercise physiologist who’s lived in Nakusp for five years, traveling with Team Canada to Italy next Sunday, Feb. 22, will mark the start of her third Paralympics. While not competing as an athlete at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games, running from March 6 to 15, Kryski will play an

Tribute concerts are nothing new at Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey, but none have ever celebrated the music of Jimmy Buffett, the American singer-songwriter known for “island escapism” songs and Parrothead super-fans who love a good Hawaiian shirt. Now along comes Volcano, an eight-member band launched in 2025 to recreate the tropical-rock vibes of