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RCMP requested vehicle bridge-crossing data with little information

Students at some New Westminster schools will have a new option for healthy lunches when the district’s school nourishment program rolls out in January.

In this year of municipal elections in British Columbia, housing was consistently the top-ranked issue for residents of Metro Vancouver – with the exception of Surrey, where public safety was deemed more important.

A missing man has been found safe after Coquitlam Search and Rescue and New Westminster Police launched a search when he didn’t return home after going out for a walk Tuesday night.

TransLink is touting its latest ridership numbers, saying it set a new record in October. There were 39.65 million boardings on transit last month, covering bus, SkyTrain, HandyDART, SeaBus and West Coast Express.

Local government and BC Ferries are in preliminary support of an idea to redistribute ferry vouchers to allow Lower Mainland youth sports teams to travel to the Sunshine Coast on discount.

By now you might have seen the video. If lucky, you haven’t. It’s the aftermath of a minor collision involving a bike and a car at the intersection of Cook and Yates on Saturday afternoon.

The City of New Westminster is considering a change to its longstanding process for setting electrical utility rates. On Monday, council approved in-principle rate adjustments for the water, sewer and solid waste utilities.

One in five children is still growing up poor in B.C., a “profoundly disappointing” finding that underlines the challenge facing government anti-poverty efforts, an advocacy group says.

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