The RCMP arrested four people on Nov. 25 after a blockade at a forestry operation in the Carmanah Valley, near Lake Cowichan. Three of those were arrested for breaching an injunction granted by the B.C. Supreme Court in September that prohibits people from obstructing forestry operations on the Walbran Forest Service Road,. The fourth was […]

(Advertising feature) Live Here, Shop Here is a Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News campaign that spans the holiday season to spotlight the value of shopping local. . An international array of restaurants will be offering a variety of festive dishes for the holiday season across Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. In many cultures the holiday

Fraud charges have been laid against a former City of Surrey employee accused of defrauding city hall of $2.5 million. Sunny Catlin, 40, is charged with four crimes that include committing fraud or breach of trust by issuing and depositing cheques from the City of Surrey without authority and for her own benefit; defrauding the

A Clearwater woman has been handed a 10-year ban on breeding dogs commercially after she pleaded guilty to causing distress to animals in Kamloops Provincial Court on Friday, Nov. 21. Bonnie Milligan, born in 1952, was also sentenced to one year of probation. She pleaded down from two animal cruelty charges — causing unnecessary pain

An Alberta man who killed a man in Chilliwack in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison. Harry Christensen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on March 26, 2025, for killing 27-year-old Kyle Cromarty. The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed with The Progress that Christensen was sentenced on Nov. 25 in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack.