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New Westminster "highly respected" in B.C. film industry

Front Street is going to be off-limits for film companies for most of 2015. Scott Harper, the city’s film coordinator, recently updated city council about filming activity in New Westminster in 2014.

Fundraiser total climbing as second quake hits Nepal

Retired Burnaby fire captain Eoin White has gathered more than $13,000 online to help Nepalese families

Students not getting enough time to eat, New Westminster trustee

New Westminster elementary school students will no longer have to wolf down their lunches in 15 minutes or less come September, if MaryAnn Mortensen has her way.

Multimillion-dollar Fraser River exhibit moving forward

The Fraser River Discovery Centre is forging ahead with Phase 1 of a $2.25-million exhibit dubbed the Working River Project.

Alcohol regulations aimed at boosting New Westminster school district rentals

The New Westminster school board is considering new alcohol regulations aimed at bolstering weekend rentals of school district facilities.
New Westminster school board tables French immersion lottery

New Westminster school board tables French immersion lottery

New Westminster parents have an extra month to wrap their head around proposed changes to the school district’s French immersion registration process.

[UPDATED] New West transit ballot returns climbing

Number of factors at play in plebiscite ballot return numbers.

Plans for upstream haz-mat plant quashed

Burnaby’s world-renowned rivers advocate is breathing a sigh of relief now that plans for an upstream hazardous waste facility are off the table.
Better safe than sorry, drop those drugs

Better safe than sorry, drop those drugs

This Saturday the New Westminster police are encouraging residents to drop off any unused or unwanted prescription drugs at the station as part of the National Prescription Drug Drop-Off Day.

Southern Railway employees back to work

Contract dispute resolved nearly four months after lockout.