Pitt Meadows

Ridge Meadows RCMP are investigating a suspicious death. (Neil Corbett/The News)

Police investigating suspicious death in Maple Ridge

RCMP asking for public’s help after body of 49-year-old man found

 

Curt Malawsky is the coach of the year in the NLL, and is seen here with son Dawson last summer, after their Burrards won the U13 A1 provincial championship. (Dennis Windsor/Special to The News)

Thunder’s Malawsky coach of the year in the NLL

Won most regular season games ever with Calgary Roughnecks

 

Video appears to show a person firebombing a group of people in an alley in Maple Ridge. (Reddit)

Video appears to show person throwing firebomb at group in Maple Ridge alley

Social media poster said street people were the target of the attack

 

Maple Ridge soccer phenom Taryck “TJ” Tahid, 16, is the youngest player in Canadian Premier League history to sign a standard contract. (Beau Chevalier, Vancouver FC)

Vancouver FC makes Maple Ridge teen the league’s youngest player

Taryck Tahid, just turned 16, is the baby of the Canadian Premier League

Maple Ridge soccer phenom Taryck “TJ” Tahid, 16, is the youngest player in Canadian Premier League history to sign a standard contract. (Beau Chevalier, Vancouver FC)
City hall managers Christina Crabtree, David Pollock and Christine Carter are no longer employed by the City of Maple Ridge. (Special to The News)

Maple Ridge city hall lets three managers go in shakeup

Trio of long-serving city hall staffers lose jobs in restructuring

City hall managers Christina Crabtree, David Pollock and Christine Carter are no longer employed by the City of Maple Ridge. (Special to The News)
Jaime Perrault (right) helped Team Canada qualify for the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship by going unbeaten in the qualifiers. (Canada Soccer/Special to The News)

B.C. teens help bring Team Canada to Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship

Jaime Perrault put up a goal and two assists during Canada’s perfect 4-0 run in qualifiers

Jaime Perrault (right) helped Team Canada qualify for the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship by going unbeaten in the qualifiers. (Canada Soccer/Special to The News)
A Maple Ridge city councillor seeks to restrict open drug use in parks and places people gather. (Black Press file photo)

Maple Ridge city councillor wants to restrict open drug use

Yousef wants a bylaw to keep parks and public gathering spaces drug-free

A Maple Ridge city councillor seeks to restrict open drug use in parks and places people gather. (Black Press file photo)
A traffic collision at Laity Street and Lougheed Highway involving a pedestrian resulted in two vehicles being flipped onto their sides late Thursday morning. (Shane MacKichan/Special to The News

UPDATE: Pedestrian dead after being struck by out-of-control vehicle in Maple Ridge

Police say the vehicle was travelling east in a westbound lane on Lougheed Highway

A traffic collision at Laity Street and Lougheed Highway involving a pedestrian resulted in two vehicles being flipped onto their sides late Thursday morning. (Shane MacKichan/Special to The News
Jaime Perrault (2nd from left) will be returning for her second season with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Academy. (Vancouver Whitecaps FC/Special to The News)

B.C. players return for second season with Vancouver Whitecaps FC Academy

The women’s team won the inaugural season of League1 BC soccer

Jaime Perrault (2nd from left) will be returning for her second season with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Academy. (Vancouver Whitecaps FC/Special to The News)
Former European surgeon Bill Jakobs and MP Marc Dalton. (Special to The News)

B.C. MP sounds alarm after European surgeon forced into new career amid doctor shortage

MP Dalton slams government for roadblocks immigrant doctors and nurses face

Former European surgeon Bill Jakobs and MP Marc Dalton. (Special to The News)
Mayor Nicole MacDonald and the rest of Pitt Meadows city council voted not to become a funding partner in the Harris Road underpass project during the April 18 council meeting. (Brandon Tucker/The News)

City of Pitt Meadows votes not to become a funding partner in underpass project

Port authority was asking for $49.6 million from city for Harris Road underpass

Mayor Nicole MacDonald and the rest of Pitt Meadows city council voted not to become a funding partner in the Harris Road underpass project during the April 18 council meeting. (Brandon Tucker/The News)
Police on scene Monday, near the southeast entrance to the Meadowtown Shopping Centre. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)

Homeless man found in Maple Ridge may have been murdered: IHIT

IHIT says Randy Semotiuk’s body was found near Golden Ears Bridge on Monday

Police on scene Monday, near the southeast entrance to the Meadowtown Shopping Centre. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)
Ridge Meadows RCMP have taped off a large area near the southeast entrance to the Meadowtown Shopping Centre. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)

Body found in Pitt Meadows, homicide investigators called in

Ridge Meadows RCMP on scene near Meadowtown Shopping Centre

Ridge Meadows RCMP have taped off a large area near the southeast entrance to the Meadowtown Shopping Centre. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)
Several members of the Hopcott family, which runs Hopcott Farms in Pitt Meadows, were selected as the BC Outstanding Young Farmers of 2023. (Hopcott Farms/Special to The News)

Lower Mainland family declared BC Outstanding Young Farmers of 2023

The Hopcott siblings will be competing for the national title later this year

Several members of the Hopcott family, which runs Hopcott Farms in Pitt Meadows, were selected as the BC Outstanding Young Farmers of 2023. (Hopcott Farms/Special to The News)
Brittney Johnson, Owner of Coastal Collective + Co, in Osprey Village, says filming in the community has a negative impact on the businesses trying to operate there. (Special to The News)

Petition launched to part ways with film industry in B.C. village

Business owners and residents annoyed about disruption with little compensation

Brittney Johnson, Owner of Coastal Collective + Co, in Osprey Village, says filming in the community has a negative impact on the businesses trying to operate there. (Special to The News)
Glee Dango plays the part of Julie Graham-Chang, left, and Pitt Meadows actress Mia Bella will be playing the part of Lydia Goldblatt in the new television series <em>Popularity Papers</em>. (Special to The News)

Lower Mainland actress stars in YTV show Popularity Papers

Popularity Papers airs Mondays 3 p.m. PST on YTV beginning April 10

Glee Dango plays the part of Julie Graham-Chang, left, and Pitt Meadows actress Mia Bella will be playing the part of Lydia Goldblatt in the new television series <em>Popularity Papers</em>. (Special to The News)
Golden Eagle Golf Club hosted the first tournament of the MJT 2023 season from March 13-14. (MJT/Special to The News)

2023 season of the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour tees off at B.C. golf course

Players received gift packages in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the MJT

Golden Eagle Golf Club hosted the first tournament of the MJT 2023 season from March 13-14. (MJT/Special to The News)
Ridge Meadows RCMP are investigating after a man was found deceased in the parking lot next to Maple Ridge Secondary School on March 4. (Brandon Tucker/The News)

Police name man found dead in Maple Ridge on Saturday

IHIT investigating suspicious death of Surinderjit Singh, 55,

Ridge Meadows RCMP are investigating after a man was found deceased in the parking lot next to Maple Ridge Secondary School on March 4. (Brandon Tucker/The News)
Shahram Rashti (left) and Bahram Rashti (right) of UP Vertical Farms just unveiled Canada’s first hands-free vertical farming facility. (Special to The News)

Canada gets its first hands-free vertical farming facility

UP Vertical Farms is expected to produce nearly 2 million pounds of salad greens each year

Shahram Rashti (left) and Bahram Rashti (right) of UP Vertical Farms just unveiled Canada’s first hands-free vertical farming facility. (Special to The News)
A screen shot from the video shows a cow being prodded. (Screen grab from video)

Complaint made against B.C. slaughterhouse over alleged animal cruelty

A video supplied to Animal Justice shows animals being hit and throats slit while still conscious

A screen shot from the video shows a cow being prodded. (Screen grab from video)