In the air there’s a definite feeling of Christmas, and with just one week to go before Dec. 25 there will be lots of packages arriving, plenty of shopping trips, visits to crowded malls, and perhaps plans to head somewhere else for the holidays. Unfortunately, this time of year also sees a rise in mail […]

Filmmaker and conservationist Joshua Wright was hiking in the Black Creek valley south of Gold River last summer when he came across one of the biggest yellow cedar trees he had ever seen. “It felt like I had died and gone to heaven,” said Wright of trekking through one of the last intact old-growth forests

A recent provincial court hearing landed a motorist a $4,500 fine and a two-year park access prohibition for entering a closed section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Rogers Pass — not once, but twice — during avalanche control. In a statement to Black Press Media, Parks Canada shared that, last winter, a traveller drove through

Thousands are in the dark following a windstorm Monday that knocked power out to many areas across the province. BC Hydro is reporting outages throughout the Okanagan, Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and various regions in B.C. Check BC Hydro for updates.

The regional transit authority is boosting winter services on 37 Metro Vancouver Bus routes, including in Maple Ridge. TransLink has added more service on both the 745 and 746 routes to shorten wait times. The 745 Haney Place-Cottonwood will see buses every 30 minutes toward Haney Place from 11 a.m. until 12 p.m., from 60