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This one’s for those New West residents who bundled up in their warmest gear and shivered their way to work this morning, bemoaning the fact that the backyard thermometer had dropped to a shocking -8C.

New Westminster renters staged a rally at city hall Monday night to voice their loud support for new rules that will make it harder for landlords to renovict tenants.

Initiative comes seven years after the B.C. government rejected Telus’s $40-million proposal

Some collaborations are just meant to be. Not long ago, Burnaby Mountain Secondary music teacher Deanna Gestrin got a call from an Indigenous hip hop artist living in New Westminster.

New Westminster will be tackling various components of the official community plan in 2019, but it remains to be seen whether work on duplexes and triplexes will be in the mix.

Hammers and nails are in the future of Don and Darlene Bucholtz. The two lottery winners want do major renovations of their home. When he checked his ticket, Don needed to slow down and recount the zeros to find out he won a life-changing prize.

On Friday night, somebody won $26.6 million in the Lotto Max. Somebody topped that Saturday night - by a lot. There is one winning ticket for Saturday night's Lotto 649 jackpot of just under $33.4 million, and it was sold somewhere in Ontario.

I know I’m a little late with this, but some things are worth waiting for (unfortunately, this isn’t one of them). 2018 was a big year for craft beer in B.C., but let’s stop living in the past.

Police say the driver of a Jeep that plummeted down an embankment off Columbia Street west of McBride Boulevard on Saturday may have been driving while prohibited. The crash happened around 3:25 a.m. on Feb.

Wine columnist Eric Hanson has a list of beers that pair well with Chinese food.