Trevor Halford wants to put 2025 behind him. “My job is not to look in the rear-view mirror about what’s happened and try to cast judgment on any of that,” the B.C. Conservative interim leader said in a year-end interview with Black Press Media. Instead, Halford wants to use the opportunity of an upcoming leadership […]

The year brought a mix of stories to Black Press Media sites across Western Canada, with no shortage of community stories brought to readers by local journalists. People who made the news across Canada From massive lottery wins to a magician trying to get his spark back and the world’s richest man on a weekend

A national food rescue agency is asking Canadians to skip the milk and cookies for Santa this year, and help feed people experiencing hunger instead. And, in a letter to the nation, released by the organization Second Harvest, it appears Santa approves too. “You know the milk and cookies you leave out for me? They’re

Some Township of Langley firefighters were able to apply recently acquired high angle rescue skills when a vehicle went off the road in Glen Valley on the weekend, landing at the bottom of a steep embankment. Deputy Fire Chief Russ Jenkins said crews arrived around 1 p.m on Sunday, Dec. 21 in the 6900-block of

A stolen electronic mobility bike belonging to a child with special needs was turned into police anonymously. The black Volt Trio Trike with a car seat on the back was returned to the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 23. Ridge Meadows RCMP frontline officers and City of Maple Ridge Community Safety Officers helped