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The City of New Westminster will attempt to encourage voter turnout in municipal elections. Coun. Jonathan Cote said some people feel overwhelmed by the municipal election process and the number of candidates on the ballot.

Moody Park is going to the dogs – with or without an off-leash area. Each evening, dog owners living in condominiums around Moody Park gather in an area between two baseball diamonds to give their pooches a chance to exercise and socialize.

The suspect in a stabbing on Eighth Street Thursday night is on the run, and New West police are trying to track him down. At about 9:30 p.m.

Construction didn’t even let up during the official ground breaking ceremony for the École Fraser River Middle School on Thursday.

New Westminster wants more information about a recycling facility that’s coming to Queensborough. Multi-Material B.C. has selected Green By Nature to manage operations of a 179,000-square-foot facility on Gifford Street that will open in 2015. Coun.

A future development on the waterfront is removing rental units so it can address a variety of community concerns. Bev Grieve, the city’s director of development services, said the developer of 1000 Quayside Dr.

The Royal Lancers won’t have to put away their dancing shoes just yet. City officials recently met with some of the Royal Lancers to discuss ways of modernizing the dances between the lancers and girls in the May Queen suite at the May Day banquet.

Small business gets bad news after a good day

Concerned about increasing traffic at F-rated intersection

They’re tired of waiting and want answers now – that’s the feeling from frustrated local parents who are sending a letter to the Ministry of Education calling for immediate funding for the long-overdue replacement of New Westminster Secondary School.