Charges have been upgraded for a man charged with a homicide at an Abbotsford homeless camp. Ryan Easton, 49, was initially charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of a 47-year-old man on April 24. But the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced on Friday (May 15) that Easton is now instead charged with […]

The workers that provide 99 per cent of the initial 911 calls for B.C. have overwhelmingly voted in favour of strike action. The Emergency Communications Professionals of B.C. voted 95 per cent in favour of job action following a 24-hour electronic strike vote that opened May 13, the union announced in a release Thursday (May

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The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows School Board decided against a staff recommendation to phase out Ridge Meadows College. But the future of the college is still in question. A report by superintendent Teresa Downs asked trustees to consider fiscal constraints, program sustainability, as well as “the district’s responsibility to prioritize its legislated K-12 mandate.” The board

Former Hope mayor Bud Gardner has a special memory of the opening of the Coquihalla Highway: he was in the car with then-premier Bill Bennett as it burst through the vinyl barrier at the Nicolum Creek Bridge to celebrate the occasion. Gardner recalls that the day – Friday, May 16, 1986 – was filled with