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You may need a map to find your way around New Westminster City Hall by the time it’s finished renovating. The council chamber has been off-limits for the last couple of months while renovations are underway – but that’s just the beginning.

New Westminster is taking the plunge and embarking on plans to build a brand new pool. Canada Games Pool’s days are numbers after a technical assessment of the pool’s infrastructure concluded it’s in “critical” condition.

The search for a missing New West senior came to a tragic end on Monday, when the body of Mathieu Joseph Racine was found near the 22nd Street SkyTrain station.

New Westminster police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing senior with dementia. Mathieu Joseph Racine was last seen at his home in the 400 block of Third Avenue at approximately 1:15 p.m. on Thursday.

Royal City residents will be shelling out a bit more money for utilities in 2016. New Westminster city council is set to hike to the city’s utilities for the coming year: electrical – four per cent; water – 5.5 per cent; sewer – 7.

Re-Up BBQ at River Market is hosting a long-table dinner on Thursday in hopes of raising $15,000 for a former employee who recently learned he has multiple sclerosis.

Lynn Radbourne’s cultural award has some company on the mantle. Radbourne was named New Westminster’s 2015 Citizen of the Year at the Platinum Award gala on Nov. 5.

Better signage, more voting booths and improved technologies – those are some of the items voters would like to see in future civic elections.

A massive development on the east side of the city has cleared its first hurdle. City council has approved an amendment to the official community plan to change the land-use design of 97 Braid St.

Tequila Mockingbird wants to “drag” arthritis out of the closet to show the autoimmune disease doesn’t discriminate – not against age, gender, race or sexuality. The drag queen, who’s also the poster girl for the Arthritis Society, B.C.