Maple Ridge firefighters rescue household, woman in wheelchair, from flood

Four people, including one in a wheelchair, had to be rescued from a flooded house surrounded by rushing water on Monday morning, Jan. 12. The property near the junction of 224 Street and 132 Avenue flooded rapidly in the latest atmospheric river to drench the Lower Mainland. Melanie Brooks had moved into the property as […]

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B.C. poverty ministry ‘decades’ away from 10-minute response standard: ombudsperson

B.C.’s ombudsperson says it will take “decades” before the Social Development and Poverty Reduction Ministry reaches its own service standards for call wait times. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke’s office released the update report Tuesday (Jan. 13), eight years after his office identified core problems when it came to the ministry’s response time to calls for income

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24 years later, killer hitchhiker returns to B.C. to answer for his crime

It was Sept. 10, 2001, a week after Labour Day. The night air near Hixon felt like autumn. Two men on motorcycles visiting from the United States pulled off Highway 97 at the Woodpecker Rest Area, 46 kilometres south of Prince George. Something caught their attention. Rustling in the bushes. A bear spray can, a

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