The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News is a community newspaper serving the B.C. Lower Mainland

Lower Mainland

The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As of 2007, 2,524,113 people live in the region; sixteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located there.While the term Lower Mainland has been...

 communities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, located 40 km east of Vancouver. The News is published on Wednesdays and Fridays and is delivered to close to 30,000 homes free of charge.
The paper is a tabloid format and is owned by Black Press.http://www.blackpress.ca/division/profile.php?divID=2&paperID=46

History

Founded in 1978 as a free-distribution paper called the Local News, The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The 2008 re-distribution is an amalgamation of the old Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadow riding with an addition of a small portion of the old Maple Ridge-Mission.- Demographics :-1999...

 News has been part of the Black Community Newspaper Group since January 1997.

Then-publisher Gordon Robson expanded the paper from weekly to twice-weekly in 1985 with the publication of The Sunday News, he extended its reach westward into neighbouring communities, laying the groundwork to launch successful sister papers, the Tri-City News and Burnaby/New Westminster News Leader.