Dear Editor, On July 21, Greta Borick-Cunningham and I appeared before Mayor Dan Ruimy and city council, as part of a delegation from local community group Maple Ridge Friends for Peace. We were urging the adoption of the Apartheid-Free Communities (AFC) pledge. The pledge opposes racism and oppression, and commits to ending support for Israel’s […]

Police in Creston have arrested a man on charges of second-degree murder after another man was found dead in town Thursday, July 23. Creston RCMP shared Friday afternoon, July 24, that officers found a man unresponsive around Canyon Street and 12th Avenue around 2 a.m. Thursday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, with

B.C.’s energy minister signed an order on Friday to allow the $2-billion expansion of a natural gas refuelling terminal in Delta to go ahead without the normal approvals from the B.C. Utilities Commission. The move, executed through a cabinet order, will exempt FortisBC’s Tilbury Liquefied Natural Gas facility from needing a B.C. Utilities Commission Certificate

Let’s see the community Through Your Lens. We want to see Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge as you see it. Send us a photo showing how you view the community, and it could be featured in a future edition of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News. Please include the photographer’s full name and tell us where

The B.C. Nurses’ Union has agreed to end job action and accept a mediated settlement with the Health Employers’ Association of B.C. The deal was negotiated by Vince Ready and Amanda Rogers, the same labour mediators who successfully brought an end to last year’s public service strike. At more than three weeks, it was the