Maple Ridge News

The following day trip is suggested by Steve Campbell of Vancouver-based Campbell & Company Strategies Inc.

METRO VANCOUVER a ' Someone is enjoying quite the new wardrobe after a Mark's Work Wearhouse trailer in Maple Ridge containing roughly $10,000 in merchandise was stolen late Sunday night or early Monday morning.

Maple Ridge has inked a 10-year deal with CONNEX to provide a backbone fibre-optic network to make information bits fly between district computers and offices.

Some 180 young people from around the Lower Mainland will be asked to leave their iPods, cellphones and other electronics at home as they take part in a five-day living history lesson.

Cyclists can safely cruise all the way from west Maple Ridge to 256th Street if they follow 123rd Avenue.

Members of the Lower Mainland District Emergency Response Team and IHIT arresting 28 year-old Hershan Singh Bains of Maple Ridge in connection to the murder of Steve Nagra.

Can't get eagles and bridges off my mind. Donna and I took a drive into the Big City this weekend, and I decided to go around the back way, creating a Golden Opportunity to use the new bridge.

Congestion costs money, says TransLink CEO Tom Prendergast. Tell us about it. Residents of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows waited decades for a new bridge, all the while spending what amounted to years sitting in gridlock while trying to cross the Pitt or Fraser rivers.

Council has heard the cry for more shopping in Maple Ridge, says the mayor. "We heard it.

Bob Symonsa s first trip on the Golden Ears Bridge came about from a roll of the dice, so to speak.

Two used 355-ton ferry boats are for sale on the Craigslist Internet sales site by a western Canadian company whose services are being replaced by a bridge.

Jordan Last was first across the Golden Ears Bridge. The 19-year-old from Maple Ridge lined up before midnight in his 1989 Jeep Comanche to be the first to drive across the one-kilometre, $808-million span that opened to traffic Tuesday.

Google, the symbol of all things modern, has some catching up to do. As of Friday, Google Maps didn't show the new Golden Ears Bridge connecting Langley and Maple Ridge.

Thousands pack the bridge during what was the official opening of the Golden Ears Bridge linking Langley, B.C. and Maple Ridge, B.C. on June 14, 2009.

Legislation aimed at abolishing the - faint-hope clause' for convicted murderers has been welcomed by Lilianne Fuller, who was one of a handful of Langley people instrumental in lobbying successive federal governments for its repeal.

Mounties in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge, B.C., are investigating a late-night shooting, but they aren't exactly sure where it happened.

Three students from Peggy Peat School of Dance are back in Maple Ridge after a whirlwind week at a provincial festival where they set a high standard for local dancers.

Traffic along Lougheed Highway is being stopped in both directions as fire crews finish battling a two-alarm blaze at a car repair shop at the corner of Lougheed and 207th Street in Maple Ridge.

After this spring, Remembrance Day will have a different meaning for Elijah and Jessie Goerzen.

The sixth annual Fund Run for the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation is on Sunday, 9 a.m. at Fairview elementary on 206 Street in Maple Ridge.