Two men have been charged in the 2022 murder of Cory William Thomas in Maple Ridge. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, (IHIT), arrested Richard Angelo Pignatelli, 26, and Kyle Raymond Edlund, 27, both of Maple Ridge. Pignatelli was arrested on Friday, March 27, and the BC Prosecution Service laid one count of manslaughter with a […]

One of the biggest music festivals in the Kootenays has been cancelled due to what its board of directors say are rising debts and an inability to make a profit. The Kaslo Jazz Etc. Fest announced Monday it is $250,000 in debt and is being forced to scale back this year’s event, with plans to

A local rescue team is lauding Good Samaritans after plucking someone from the waters off Gyro Park in the early hours of April 11. Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station Oak Bay was tasked out for an urgent page of a person in the water about 100 metres off Gyro Park Beach. A 36-year-old

A fire at Bakerview Centre for Learning on Marshall Road in Abbotsford on Monday morning (April 13) is being investigated as an arson. According to a social media post from the Abbotsford Police Department, officers responded to the blaze at approximately 3:49 a.m. with firefighters from Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service already on scene. Firefighters extinguished

Minister of Education and Child Care, Lisa Beare, stood in the Legislative Chamber on Thursday, April 2, to honour the life of former MLA Michael Sather. Sather, a two-term MLA representing Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, died on March 27 at the age of 78. “Michael was a good friend to so many of us here in