Protection of water, salmon and sacred sites has chiefs banding together against an Okanagan gold mining operation. The Okanagan Indian Band’s (OKIB) call for watershed protection has received strong support from First Nations leadership across the province. Chief and council attended the 57th Annual General Assembly of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), […]

Premier David Eby told reporters on Monday that after meeting with federal officials, he is cancelling a planned advertising campaign in the United States that was critical of lumber tariffs and duties. “One of my commitments to the federal government was that if they came to the table with us, if they sat with us,

A low impact parody on the male stripper is coming to Maple Ridge played by some of Canada’s best improv comedians. Comic Roman Danylo is one of four who plays a fictitious male stripper in “The Comic Strippers”, grooving and gyrating between scenes, and playing off the crowd, in the completely unscripted show. Danylo has

A Chilliwack RCMP officer was still in hospital on Monday, following a head-on collision early Sunday morning. The crash took place at about 1:10 a.m. Nov. 2, on Vedder Road just north of Stevenson Road. Sgt. Alexandra Mulvihill of the Chilliwack RCMP said the officer was driving north in a fully-marked 2021 Ford Explorer when

The murder trial of Nicholas Bellemare, the man accused of fatally shooting Ridge Meadows RCMP Const. Rick O’Brien, began in Supreme Court in New Westminister on Monday, Nov. 3. Bellemare, who is also charged with the attempted murder of Cpl. Colin Ryder during the same Sept. 22, 2023 shooting, heard the Crown prosecutors lay out