Residents of east Maple Ridge can get rid of unwanted tree and shrub branches at the city’s free Fall Brush Chipping program. Chipping crews will be collecting up to three cubic metres per household, of branches 15 centimetres in diameter or less. They will only be collecting at single-family homes east of 224 Street, and

The Remembrance Day poppy campaign kicked off in Maple Ridge with the presentation of the first poppy to Mayor Dan Ruimy. Ruimy accepted the poppy from Judy Ballard, past president of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 88 in Maple Ridge, on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at city hall. New this year are poppy campaign chairs Brenda

A Langley man is dead after drowning in the Vedder River in Chilliwack on Saturday. The incident happened around 7:40 a.m. on Oct. 25 near Vedder River Campground and the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. BC Ambulance Service, the Chilliwack Fire Department, Chilliwack Search and Rescue, and RCMP were all on scene, and SAR deployed

A 27-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the 2021 shooting of Neal Pratap in Burnaby. The Burnaby RCMP responded to a call of a shooting in the 6100 block of McKee Street in Burnaby at around 10:07 p.m. on Feb. 11, 2021. Police located Pratap, who was “suffering from