Maple Ridge News – Maple Ridge

Grow-A-Row for the food bank in Maple Ridge

Gardeners at the Intergenerational Garden participated in the Grow-A-Row program for the Friends In Need Food Bank in previous years. (The News files)

Friends In Need Food Bank in need of gardeners to produce fresh produce

by Colleen Flanagan
3h ago

The Latest

Jose Marchand prepares Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination doses at a mobile clinic for members of First Nations and their partners, in Montreal, Friday, April 30, 2021. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is coming under fire after contradicting the advice Canadians have been receiving for weeks to take the first vaccine against COVID-19 that they’re offered. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Trudeau says he is glad he got AstraZeneca, vaccines are only way out of pandemic
- updated 7h ago
Sales at ERA Maple Ridge show sizzling market
- updated 5h ago
Pitt Meadows cannabis company names new CEO
- updated 9h ago
Chamber of Commerce wants Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to move barriers to patios
- 11h ago
Administrators vote to change BC school sports governance
- updated 13h ago

B.C.’s provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Dip in COVID-19 cases with 572 newly announced in B.C.

updated 4h ago

Ripy Jubbal of Abbotsford has received a 30-month jail sentence for the fraudulent use of credit cards and credit card data. (Facebook photo)

Abbotsford woman sentenced for $80K in fraudulent credit card purchases

by Vikki Hopes

updated 7h ago

Should states set pot policy by its potency? Some say yes

Cannabis 19+

Royal BC Museum exhibit dives into the world of orcas

West Coast Traveller

Solar panels on a parking garage at the University of B.C. will be used to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen, the latter captured to supply a vehicle filling station. (UBC video)

UBC parkade project to use solar energy for hydrogen vehicles

by Tom Fletcher

updated 7h ago

RCMP officers wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 stand by as protesters opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion block rail lines, in Burnaby, B.C., on Friday, November 27, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. to launch travel restriction road checks at 4 locations this Thursday

by Katya Slepian

updated 7h ago

FILE – A student arrives at school as teachers dressed in red participate in a solidarity march to raise awareness about cases of COVID-19 at Ecole Woodward Hill Elementary School, in Surrey, B.C., on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. ‘should be able to’ offer 1st dose of COVID vaccine to kids 12+ by end of June: Henry

by Katya Slepian

updated 8h ago

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Sun, sand and snow? Discover 4 seasons of fun in your BC backyard

Looking for the nearest COVID shot? Tech entrepreneur creates texting software in B.C

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, a vial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is displayed at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine can be given to adults 30+ who can’t wait for mRNA: NACI

Emerging through a bed of snow Thursday, Grinder and Coola clawed their way out into the new season. (Grouse Mountain Resort)

VIDEO: Grouse grizzlies awake from months-long hibernation to signs of spring

A construction worker bursts into song on a Coquitlam job site in Langley musician Gino Gerussi’s performance of “Just In Love With A Girl” (Screen grab/Special to Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: B.C. construction worker who ‘can actually sing’ creates catchy tune

2 cougars killed following attack on woman in Agassiz area

Attack victim remains in hospital in stable condition

by Adam Louis

updated 8h ago

A picture of Shirley Ann Soosay was rendered from a postmortem photographer and circulated on social media. (DDP graphic)

B.C. genealogist key to naming murder victim in decades-old California cold case

In July 1980, Shirley Ann Soosay was raped and stabbed to death

by Andrea DeMeer

updated 9h ago

Trial paused for former Abbotsford vice-principal charged with child porn
- 10h ago
B.C. funds health services for survivors of Japanese internment
- 10h ago
‘The best decision’: B.C. mom encourages other pregnant women to get COVID-19 shot
- updated 9h ago
B.C. CDC updates info, acknowledging small respiratory droplets can spread COVID-19
- updated 9h ago
City of White Rock asking outside visitors to stay away
- updated 8h ago

B.C. Lions call on Vernon standout in CFL draft

Canadian Football League club selects former VSS Panthers star Ben Hladik in third round of league draft

by Roger Knox

updated 8h ago

Abbotsford’s Jake Virtanen is now under investigation from the Vancouver Police Department following sexual misconduct allegations. (John Morrow/Abbotsford News)

Vancouver police investigating sexual misconduct claims against Canucks’ Jake Virtanen

Abbotsford native remains on leave with the Vancouver Canucks following recent allegations

by Ben Lypka

11h ago

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