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New Westminster residents could be facing a 2.75 to 3.45 per cent hike to their taxes in 2015 On Feb. 2, council received a report about the 2015 to 2019 financial plan. The report stated that a 2.

Cops are investigating a stabbing at Columbia Square. Shortly after 2 p.m. police were called to 1005 Columbia St. for reports a man had been stabbed, Staff Sgt. Todd Matsumoto told the Record . The victim was taken to hospital with stab wounds.

Royal City residents can help put a cap on homelessness on Toque Tuesday. Pacific Community Resources Society and the Lookout Emergency Aid Society are community partners in Raising the Roof’s annual national Toque Tuesday campaign. On Feb.

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The New Westminster Festival of Volunteers is serving up of a smorgasbord of potential ways to contribute to the community. Royal City Centre will be buzzing with activity on Saturday for the 13th annual New Westminster Festival of Volunteers.

Fraser Health is seeing an uptick in parents calling about vaccinations after a recent measles outbreak in Disneyland, but 42 per cent of New Westminster kids under the age of two are still unvaccinated, according to health authority data.

“This is an ever changing landscape of eggshells”

The City of New Westminster has become British Columbia’s first dementia-friendly city council. City council recently participated in a training session offered by the Alzheimer Society of B.C.

Two local pastors shared their concerns at the New Westminster's board of education meeting Tuesday night on an inclusion policy that trustees say makes schools safer for LGBT students.

Fans and foes of a proposed expansion of Urban Academy are getting a jump on the public hearing. Urban Academy wants to expand its existing location at 101 Third St. by building on an adjacent site.