Garibaldi Secondary School is celebrating the holiday season with two upcoming concerts. The first is the “Polar Express Band Concert” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9. This concert will include all of the bands in the Garibaldi music program – the Grade 8 Band, Grade 9 Junior Band, the Junior Jazz Band, Grade 10 […]

Two Vernon teams returned home with hardware from their respective high school volleyball championships. The Vernon Panthers won bronze at the B.C. Senior Girls AAA event, which they hosted at the Panther Pit, and the Vernon Christian Royals bounced back from a heartbreaking semifinal loss to their league rivals to place third at the B.C.

The City of Surrey is asking the provincial government for a B.C.-wide “restriction” on possessing and using fireworks. Councillor Rob Stutt presented a notice of motion to council on November 17, which was debated at the December 1 regular council meeting. At the outset of that meeting he sought to correct an item agenda that

Surrey council on December 1 voted in favour of zoning amendments to prepare for Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion and transportation work to support the new Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre in Cloverdale. But city has yet to be given a timeline from the provincial government when a second tower at SMH – which it

The Our Neck of the Woods Festival in Maple Ridge attracted more than 20,000 attendees, and 98 per cent of those surveyed want to see it return next year. City council is considering whether to bring back the festival, and recently reviewed a staff report on the event. Councillors saw liquor sales were $101,000, and