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BC Supreme Court in New Westminster. (Black Press Media files)

B.C. man sentenced for deadly stabbing of brother

Jacob Cook to spend six more years in prison for manslaughter

BC Supreme Court in New Westminster. (Black Press Media files)
Langley Township council is (left to right) Councillor Kim Richter, Councillor Rob Rindt, Mayor Eric Woodward, Councillor Barb Martens, Councillor Misty vanPopta. (Township website)

Langley neighbourhood plans on hold in light of B.C.s new housing rules

Council may ditch plans for 3 communities as Bill 44 changes density rules

Langley Township council is (left to right) Councillor Kim Richter, Councillor Rob Rindt, Mayor Eric Woodward, Councillor Barb Martens, Councillor Misty vanPopta. (Township website)
Paul Zwingé is one of many Langley seniors facing a move – and potentially higher rents – soon because of redevelopment. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

B.C. seniors facing housing crunch, risk homelessness

Langley’s Paul Zwingé is one of many seniors facing an enforced move soon

Paul Zwingé is one of many Langley seniors facing a move – and potentially higher rents – soon because of redevelopment. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
A plane crashed after hitting a pickup truck on 216th Street May 3 at the Langley Regional Airport. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

Low approach cause of fiery crash at Langley Airport: TSB

Report said weather, pilot health, and mechanical issues largely ruled out

A plane crashed after hitting a pickup truck on 216th Street May 3 at the Langley Regional Airport. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)
Langley RCMP announced charges against three men accused of an armed robbery in Aldergrove in November. (Langley Advance Times files)

Langley robbery suspects arrested after heist of safe

Police say staff assaulted during Aldergrove stick-up

Langley RCMP announced charges against three men accused of an armed robbery in Aldergrove in November. (Langley Advance Times files)
Brian Abrosimo, 61, has been released to a halfway house in Surrey. A violent sex offender considered at high risk to reoffend, he is banned from being in Langley or Abbotsford. (Surrey RCMP/Special to Black Press Media)

Surrey RCMP warn public about violent sex criminal

Brian Abrosimo is to live in a halfway house in Surrey – is banned from Langley, Abbotsford

Brian Abrosimo, 61, has been released to a halfway house in Surrey. A violent sex offender considered at high risk to reoffend, he is banned from being in Langley or Abbotsford. (Surrey RCMP/Special to Black Press Media)
Investigators at the scene of a shooting in Langley on Tuesday, Nov. 21. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

One wounded in Langley shooting

Police are asking for tips and dash cam footage

Investigators at the scene of a shooting in Langley on Tuesday, Nov. 21. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)
A bus in Maple Ridge. Three new Bus Rapid Transit lines are moving forward, including lines in Surrey-White Rock and Langley-Maple Ridge, TransLink announced Thursday, Nov. 16. (Black Press Media files)

Fast bus lines announced in Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge, White Rock, Burnaby

New routes will have dedicated lanes, pre-payed boarding, rail-style stations

A bus in Maple Ridge. Three new Bus Rapid Transit lines are moving forward, including lines in Surrey-White Rock and Langley-Maple Ridge, TransLink announced Thursday, Nov. 16. (Black Press Media files)
A wall collapse at a six-storey building under construction on Fraser Highway near 200th Street dumped bricks on a neighbouring car sales lot in Langley City. (Dan Ferguson./Langley Advance Times)

Building under construction collapses onto Langley car dealership

Wall tumbled during Saturday-morning windstorm that struck South Coast

A wall collapse at a six-storey building under construction on Fraser Highway near 200th Street dumped bricks on a neighbouring car sales lot in Langley City. (Dan Ferguson./Langley Advance Times)
B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. (Black Press Media files)

Judge to decide fate of B.C. Hells Angel facing fraud extradition

Court Vasseur is one of two men accused in a $35 million scheme

B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. (Black Press Media files)
A mink stares out of its pen at a fur farm near St. Marys, Ont., Thursday, July 9, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins

B.C. mink farmers sue province over 2021 COVID-19-related shutdown

Lawsuit claims undue influence exercised when health authorities closed Fraser Valley farms in 2021

A mink stares out of its pen at a fur farm near St. Marys, Ont., Thursday, July 9, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins
Buses, like this one at the Carvolth Exchange, don’t run to Gloucester, despite years of lobbying by multiple Langley Township councils. (Langley Advance Times files)

Bring buses to Gloucester or give up TransLink taxes: Langley mayor

Industrial park has never had transit services despite repeated lobbying

Buses, like this one at the Carvolth Exchange, don’t run to Gloucester, despite years of lobbying by multiple Langley Township councils. (Langley Advance Times files)
Langley realtor David Foxwell has been sentenced for dragging an Alberta RCMP officer from a traffic stop. (Langley Advance Times files)

House arrest, 3-year driving ban for B.C. realtor who dragged cop with car

David Foxwell sentenced for incident in Leduc, Alberta

Langley realtor David Foxwell has been sentenced for dragging an Alberta RCMP officer from a traffic stop. (Langley Advance Times files)
Former MMA fighter Kultar Gill has been charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle casing bodily harm in connection to an incident in Aldergrove on Sunday, Oct. 29. (Ben Lypka/Black Press Media)

‘Black Mamba’ charged, car rams B.C. RCMP station as woman hangs out door

New charges against former MMA fighter Kultar Gill in Langley police station crash

Former MMA fighter Kultar Gill has been charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle casing bodily harm in connection to an incident in Aldergrove on Sunday, Oct. 29. (Ben Lypka/Black Press Media)
Aron Crimeni, Carson’s father, addressed reporters outside the courthouse after the sentencing on Thursday, Oct. 26. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Carson Crimeni’s death ‘sudden, tragic, far reaching, and unending’ for family: judge

Judge spoke of balancing ‘dangerous and stupid’ crime with hope for rehabilitation

Aron Crimeni, Carson’s father, addressed reporters outside the courthouse after the sentencing on Thursday, Oct. 26. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
The crash, like so many others, took place near the 264th Street interchange in Langley on Highway One. (Province of BC photo)

Claims of phantom hit-and-run driver in Aldergrove crash don’t add up in ICBC appeal

Witness said at-fault driver was lost in his music when he rear-ended a Toyota

The crash, like so many others, took place near the 264th Street interchange in Langley on Highway One. (Province of BC photo)
A small SUV was T-boned by a garbage truck at the intersection of 216th Street and Fraser Highway on Monday, Oct. 23 at about 1:30 p.m. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Garbage truck slams into SUV on Langley highway

Paramedics and firefighters were on scene after crash in Murrayville

A small SUV was T-boned by a garbage truck at the intersection of 216th Street and Fraser Highway on Monday, Oct. 23 at about 1:30 p.m. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
Members of the Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees Union are picketing at the Northwest Langley Wastewater Treatment plant as of Monday, Oct. 16. The union, which operates five plants across Metro Vancouver, has been without a contract for almost two years. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Wastewater workers in Langley, around Metro Vancouver, on strike

Pickets are up at Walnut Grove’s sewage treatment facility

Members of the Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees Union are picketing at the Northwest Langley Wastewater Treatment plant as of Monday, Oct. 16. The union, which operates five plants across Metro Vancouver, has been without a contract for almost two years. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
A lawsuit claims new topsoil full of glass, rocks, and other garbage made a Langley family’s lawn too dangerous to mow. (Black Press Media files)

Topsoil came with glass, rocks, condoms, claims Langley lawsuit

Family seeks $80,000 to excavate yard and start with new turf

A lawsuit claims new topsoil full of glass, rocks, and other garbage made a Langley family’s lawn too dangerous to mow. (Black Press Media files)
The SouthRidge Fellowship Church tour group arrived in the Holy Land just as war broke out. (SouthRidge Fellowship Church/Special to the Langley Advance Times)

Langley church tour group landed in Israel as war broke out

Members of the tour group are fine, and are hoping to return home Sunday

The SouthRidge Fellowship Church tour group arrived in the Holy Land just as war broke out. (SouthRidge Fellowship Church/Special to the Langley Advance Times)