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Anxiety and stress levels are at an “all time high” among City of New Westminster employees – but they’re still a cohesive group and supportive of each other in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.

Some traffic signals in New West are being reprogrammed in response to concerns about the transmission of COVID-19.

FortisBC has received interim approval from the BC Utilities Commission to implement its COVID-19 Customer Recovery Fund , a program that provides new support measures for residential and small business customers who are facing financial challenges a

The City of New Westminster is planning to reallocate some road lanes normally used by cars to pedestrians to provide better opportunities for social distancing.

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have regularly seen people choose to wear a variety of masks, from medical masks to cloth face coverings, in grocery stores and parks, on buses and sidewalks.

Health-care workers at long-term care and assisted-living homes will not be allowed to work at more than one facility during the COVID-19 outbreak, in an effort to help prevent the spread of the disease.

This week, the program opens up to residential customers; next week, it's small businesses.

Tech companies deploying projects aimed at fighting COVID-19 in as little as a week

Applications are now being accepted for the B.C. government’s pandemic rental subsidy. The program was rolled out as a part of B.C.’s response to hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 related job losses hammering the economy.

I’m taking a break from COVID-19 to talk about taking care of our community. Sure, there are more important issues going on, but that doesn’t mean people can just toss away their sense of decency. For example, the photo attached to this column.