Monisha Martins

Abihudi Imbai was a nurse at Ridge Meadows Hospital when he sexually assaulted two female patients on 11 June 2012.  On 14 Aug. 2014, he received a six month sentence to be served in the community followed by an 18-month probation order.

Former nurse gets six months for sexually assaulting patients in Maple Ridge

Abihudi Imbai will serve sentence in the community and not spend anytime in prison

Abihudi Imbai was a nurse at Ridge Meadows Hospital when he sexually assaulted two female patients on 11 June 2012.  On 14 Aug. 2014, he received a six month sentence to be served in the community followed by an 18-month probation order.
Coleen Pierre plays a leadership role in Katzie First Nations band in Pitt Meadows.

Using her voice in a good, grateful way

Coleen Pierre is keeping Katzie tradition alive, crediting her mother for her sense of pride.

Coleen Pierre plays a leadership role in Katzie First Nations band in Pitt Meadows.
Maple Ridge’s Lily Cazares performs with the Nahuali  Folklore Society at Latin fest.

Maple Ridge performers at Latin Summer fest

Nahualli Folklore Society troupe features dances from Mexico

Maple Ridge’s Lily Cazares performs with the Nahuali  Folklore Society at Latin fest.
Katzie First Nation chief Susan Miller (centre) and other council members – (from left) Peter A. James, Robin Green, and Rick Bailey.

Katzie band posts council salaries online

New federal law makes public financial statements.

Katzie First Nation chief Susan Miller (centre) and other council members – (from left) Peter A. James, Robin Green, and Rick Bailey.
Former teacher John Charles Mackinnon pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping women and girls as young as 10 on his smart phone.

Maple Ridge teacher banned from classrooms for secretly filming girls

John Charles Mackinnon used his cell phone to take pictures and videos of unsuspecting women at a Langley Wal-Mart

Former teacher John Charles Mackinnon pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping women and girls as young as 10 on his smart phone.
Christina Carr as Captain Charity Rackham, Chilam as Sheriff McNabb, Charlie Cook as Queen Catherine of Aragon, Kyle Christensson as King Henry VIII and Melissa Housser as Flora the Mad Archer. They form part of the cast at the B.C. Renaissance Festival coming to the Albion Fairgrounds Aug. 15-17.

Renaissance revival in Ridge

Renaissance Festival at the Albion Fairgrounds Aug. 15-17

Christina Carr as Captain Charity Rackham, Chilam as Sheriff McNabb, Charlie Cook as Queen Catherine of Aragon, Kyle Christensson as King Henry VIII and Melissa Housser as Flora the Mad Archer. They form part of the cast at the B.C. Renaissance Festival coming to the Albion Fairgrounds Aug. 15-17.
Sockeye salmon fishermen are busy at Kanaka Landing in Maple Ridge on a sweltering Monday. Commercial fishing opening lasted for only three hours. (Insets) Jay Oswald and Kevin Fairley load sockeye into a receiving bin on his barge Slush.

Return of the sockeye

Commercial fleet tastes first sockeye catch of the season. Maple Ridge dock busy with boats.

Sockeye salmon fishermen are busy at Kanaka Landing in Maple Ridge on a sweltering Monday. Commercial fishing opening lasted for only three hours. (Insets) Jay Oswald and Kevin Fairley load sockeye into a receiving bin on his barge Slush.
Volunteers search Gold Creek in Golden Ears Park in mid-July for the missing 23 year old woman who drowned in June.

Search to resume for woman who drowned in Golden Ears Park

The search will resume for the body of a woman who drowned in Golden Ears Provincial Park at the end of June.

Volunteers search Gold Creek in Golden Ears Park in mid-July for the missing 23 year old woman who drowned in June.
Bear roams through Pitt city centre

Bear roams through Pitt city centre

The bear was tracked to Hoffman Park where it was removed and then killed.

Bear roams through Pitt city centre
A bouquet of roses and messages are left a memorial for Jagit Khangura, aged 44, of Port Coquitlam, who drowned Aug. 4 while swimming in the Alouette River in Pitt Meadows.

Coroner identifies man who drowned in Pitt Meadows

Jagit Khangura of Port Coquitlam was swimming with his family when he disappeared under water in the Alouette River

A bouquet of roses and messages are left a memorial for Jagit Khangura, aged 44, of Port Coquitlam, who drowned Aug. 4 while swimming in the Alouette River in Pitt Meadows.
Coast Guard personnel recover the body of a man who drowned while swimming in the Alouette River in Pitt Meadows on B.C. Day.

Man drowns in Alouette River

Father disappears under water while trying to swim across a river in Pitt Meadows on B.C. Day

Coast Guard personnel recover the body of a man who drowned while swimming in the Alouette River in Pitt Meadows on B.C. Day.
Police investigate a shooting Wednesday morning that left one man dead along 240th Street in Maple Ridge.

Police seek car in fatal shooting

Maple Ridge man shot on 240th Street, police looking for a light coloured compact import car

Police investigate a shooting Wednesday morning that left one man dead along 240th Street in Maple Ridge.
Sara Dawn Beckett is a teacher with the Coquitlam School District. She'll be seeking a seat on Maple Ridge council come November.

Teacher seeks seat on Ridge council

Sara Dawn Beckett will be running in the Nov. 15 municipal election

Sara Dawn Beckett is a teacher with the Coquitlam School District. She'll be seeking a seat on Maple Ridge council come November.
Nicole Read by a house being built in Silver Valley, on the edge of the forest.

‘Protect us’ from wild fire say Maple Ridge residents

In the forests that surround Maple Ridge, you only have to dig a few metres to find a charred layer...

Nicole Read by a house being built in Silver Valley, on the edge of the forest.
Police have blocked off a portion of 240th Street near 104th Avenue, where a man was shot dead Tuesday night.

Man shot dead in Maple Ridge

Neighbours hear gun shots on 240th Street and call police

Police have blocked off a portion of 240th Street near 104th Avenue, where a man was shot dead Tuesday night.
Shady Lane has speed humps to slow down traffic. The district is testing them along the stretch to see if they'll work in other parts of Maple Ridge.

Maple Ridge gets its first ‘speed humps’

District testing measure on Shady Lane, along 124th Avenue

Shady Lane has speed humps to slow down traffic. The district is testing them along the stretch to see if they'll work in other parts of Maple Ridge.
Maple Ridge artist Vladimir Kolosov launched the first Art of Gelato contest earlier this year. He stands outside Trevi Gelato on 224th Street in Maple Ridge.

Create art inspired by gelato

Maple Ridge artist organizes contest to celebrate Italian dessert

Maple Ridge artist Vladimir Kolosov launched the first Art of Gelato contest earlier this year. He stands outside Trevi Gelato on 224th Street in Maple Ridge.
A crew on the set of a film outside the Greg Moore Youth Centre.

Film industry booming in Ridge again

Maple Ridge saw a 25 per cent increase in film productions for the first six months of 2014.

A crew on the set of a film outside the Greg Moore Youth Centre.
The first slide occurred above Jackson Road in November - the second in January.

Landslides delay Jackson Road development

District waiting for a geotechnical report on the east Maple Ridge property

The first slide occurred above Jackson Road in November - the second in January.
Day

Pitt hires new director of operations

Cory Day joins the City of Pitt Meadows from Kamloops.

Day