Ahead of the new RCMP headquarters opening up in Pitt Meadows this spring, the new police detachment is issuing a call out for volunteers. Back in 2019, under the direction of then mayor Bill Dingwall, Pitt Meadows council began reviewing local police services, and by November 2021 was given permission from the province to separate […]

British Columbia’s prescribed safer supply program — aimed at providing people at high risk of overdose with regulated alternatives to toxic street drugs — is undergoing a major shift, drawing sharp criticism from the Opposition. As of Dec. 30, 2025, all prescriptions under the Prescribed Alternatives program must now be taken under the supervision of

A B.C. Supreme Court justice will ponder whether a non-jail sentence is viable for a woman who killed a man helping to pave the Trans-Canada Highway near Nanaimo over four years ago. B.C. Supreme Court justice Douglas Thompson previously found Christianne Marie Boufford, 53, guilty of dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily

The annual challenge of buying gifts for pets is an experience that often comes with a shockingly high return rate due to feline rejection. Anyone who shops for cats knows the risk; you can spend time researching and choosing something marketed as irresistible, only for your cat to look at it like you’ve deeply offended

Music from a few dozen windchimes hanging in the trees above children’s graves at Maple Ridge Cemetery have been muted forever. Handpainted beach rocks placed carefully around the gravestones of some of the 50 or so kids – in the same dedicated children’s section of the cemetery – have vanished. Flower – both live and