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Maple Ridge city hall creating plan to bring urban creek back to health

Maple Ridge city council wants to restore an ailing urban creek that runs through city neighbourhoods and farmland. At their April 7 meeting, councillors got an update about the McKenney Creek restoration and enhancement plan, in a report presented by manager of utility engineering Joe Dingwall. Pictures said thousands of words, showing the waterway as […]

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Missing Vancouver Island cat found 30 km from home reunited with family

Campbell Riverite Rob Tuttle and his partner, Sandra Hamling, were on vacation in Mexico with their two kids when they received a message that made their trip one to remember. A volunteer with Campbell River Partners for Animal Welfare (CRPAWS), Pauline Woods, reached out to let them know that a cat with a tattoo registered

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B.C.’s need for more schools highlighted by Premier Eby during West Kelowna visit

B.C. Premier David Eby continued his tour of the Central Okanagan on Thursday morning, April 9, as he toured the construction site of the future George Pringle Secondary School in West Kelowna. The morning stop was for Eby to highlight the importance of schools not only in the Central Okanagan, but across the province. “Our

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First Nations Leadership Council calls B.C.’s DRIPA suspension a ‘unilateral betrayal’

The First Nations Leadership Council is calling Premier David Eby’s latest effort to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) a “unilateral betrayal and an abandonment of the province’s commitment to principled reconciliation,” in an official statement released on Thursday, April 9. “Premier Eby has broken the trust that

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Surrey teen serves time, 3 more to be sentenced in East Van home invasion

A Surrey teenager has already served his time, but three accomplices from Surrey, Coquitlam and Richmond are still set to be sentenced for their role in a violent nighttime home invasion and kidnapping of four people in East Vancouver on March 11, 2023. Vancouver Police Constable Darren Wong noted the 17-year-old Surrey boy, whose identity

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