The City of Maple Ridge has bolstered its online approvals process for buildings needing permits. The city has added pre-application reviews and highway use permits to its online building permit application portal, making it easier for builders, developers, and contractors to complete key early steps before submitting formal applications. The addition of these services to […]

The time has come for the B.C. Wildfire Service to begin ramping up for another wildfire season, and like last year, the agency received a record number of applications for seasonal firefighters. Approximately 2,400 applications were received for roughly 200 to 250 spots. “That is outstanding,” Forests Minister Ravi Parmar said in a Monday (March

It was a meteor about the size of a big beach ball, moving at close to 98 times the speed of sound. That’s according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) concerning the fireball that lit up the sky and shook the ground in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley on

A Maple Ridge man and North Vancouver woman accused of murdering a Burnaby activist who opposed the Iranian regime appeared in court in Vancouver on Monday morning. Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi, 48, of Maple Ridge, and Arezou Soltani, 45, of North Vancouver, both appeared by video monitor on first degree murder charges in the death of

A lockdown has been lifted that was put in place at Abbotsford Regional Hospital on Monday afternoon (March 16) after a report of weapon, and a man has been arrested. Sgt. Paul Walker, media officer with the Abbotsford Police Department, said police received a call at 2:04 p.m. from hospital staff, saying that someone had