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Special B.C. veterans’ licence plates will remain reserved for veterans. A proposal to expand the program to retired RCMP members has been nixed by the province.

Artists, arts groups and community members are all invited to turn out at the Anvil Centre to learn more about the city’s revised draft arts strategy.

Crime analysts are being credited for the capture of an alleged roof rack thief, who was arrested during a raid in an airport long-term parking lot on Sea Island. At around 7 a.m. last Friday, Oct.

New Westminster police have arrested the rifle-toting man who triggered a manhunt in Sapperton Tuesday night. The man was spotted at about 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 9 carrying a rifle near the Sapperton SkyTrain station.

Cluttering clothing racks alongside ghoul and superhero outfits are a type of costume better left alone this Halloween, according to Diane Sowden.

A woman’s mushroom picking excursion on the Sunshine Coast was cut short last Saturday after she was stalked by a male cougar, which approached her approximately five times before she was able to retreat to her vehicle.

*This story has been updated. An Environment Ministry spokesman has now confirmed that the barge on fire off the shore of New Westminster is owned by the same company involved in a similar barge fire at the same location on Aug. 10.

Many New West residents watched as plumes of black smoke billowed from a barge on the Fraser River on Tuesday night for the second time in two months. Fire broke out on a barge at Schnitzer Metal Recyclers in Surrey on Tuesday about 5 p.m.

On Tuesday, Oct. 10, over 100 members of a First Nation community near Prince George were evacuated when a gas pipeline ruptured. The ruptured pipeline started a massive fire, and may affect up to 700,000 FortisBC in the province .

On Tuesday, Oct. 9, Greenpeace announced that the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé are the world’s top polluters according their latest audit.