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A School District 23 teacher has been reprimanded by the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation after multiple issues of “professional misconduct”. Kelly Jean Hettinga, a teacher in the Central Okanagan school district and former volleyball coach, is being ordered to complete a professional boundaries course after his involvements in incidents involving a student being pantsed […]

The recent outbreak of cartel violence in Mexico has many tourists rethinking their holidays. On Sunday, Feb. 22, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Army in Tapalpa, Jalisco. El Mencho’s death sparked a wave of cartel violence, with gunmen targeting law

A former Langley condo developer, recently released from a California prison where he was serving time for wire fraud, has been fined $75,000 by the B.C. Financial Services Agency. Between 2014 and 2017, Mark Chandler promoted and sold units in the Murrayville House condo complex, which was then under construction near Langley Memorial Hospital. Work

Families and friends of 14 people whose lives were lost to violent crime gathered outside the B.C. RCMP headquarters on Feb. 22 with the goal of shedding light on their stories. This ‘Fight for Justice and Change’ campaign began with Christine Angelis, a Surrey mom who lost her daughter and her daughter’s fiancé nearly three

Provincial Emergency Program (PEP) Air leads the sombre 2026 event in honour of search and rescue volunteers who have died in the line of duty. A provincewide volunteer air search and rescue organization with more than 400 members who provide tens of thousands of hours of service each year, the organization boasts highly-trained volunteers who