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It’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s the future helipad at Royal Columbian Hospital.

As Royal City Musical Theatre prepares for the spring 2016 production of Fiddler on the Roof , it was a bit shocked to learn it may not be getting a grant from the city to help put on its annual show.

New Westminster is rallying against a plan to download the cost of DNA analysis onto municipalities. Coun. Chuck Puchmayr raised the issue of funding cuts to DNA services at the Dec. 7 council meeting, and suggested the city support the Union of B.C.

New Westminster school custodians warn understaffing will lead to accidents, spread of disease in schools.

Three surgeries, weeks of intravenous antibiotics to fight infections and months confined to bed – that’s the tale told by one local man who was hit by a car.

Council in brief

New Westminster officials not impressed

Facility to be built in Queensborough within three years

Close to 2,000 New Westminster children will likely be caught on the wrong side of the poverty line this Christmas, according to a report on child poverty released last week.

The New Media Gallery is garnering attention from near and far as it brings works by international artists to New Westminster.