A holiday market featuring a dazzling display of unique seasonal gifts hand crafted by local artisans will be taking place in Maple Ridge. Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour Society is hosting their second annual Winter Artisan Market, where more than 20 artisans will have their work on sale. The market will feature fine […]

An Armstrong woman is not allowed to own animals for 15 years after pleading guilty to cruelty. The ownership ban was handed to Sandra Nickolls on Nov. 12 in Vernon court, along with a sentence of 12 months’ probation and 40 hours of community service. Nickolls entered a guilty plea to causing animals to be

Former school trustee Barry Neufeld appeared at the Chilliwack Law Courts on Monday morning (Nov. 24) flanked by court sheriffs to address the defamation lawsuit costs he has failed to pay to Trustee Carin Bondar. The arrest of Neufeld was ordered on Oct. 27, by Justice Chan of the Supreme Court of B.C. The order

More than five years after his death, a coroner’s inquest has ruled that a 32-year-old Chilliwack man died of a homicide. Matthew Scott Causton died in the 46000-block of Christina Drive in the late night hours of May 23, 2020. The house he was in was surrounded by RCMP, including the Emergency Response Team (ERT),

The B.C. government is introducing changes to the Mental Health Act to provide stronger legal protection to workers providing involuntary care. Premier David Eby said health-care workers need that protection to treat patients because of an ongoing court challenge. That challenge, working its way through the courts for nearly 10 years and having recently concluded