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Smokers will have to butt out on pub and restarant patios under the city’s tougher new smoking control bylaw. In addition, smoking will be prohibited within 7.

A war of the words has erupted with Coquitlam’s mayor asking New Westminster to “abide by the law” so it doesn’t have to take legal action about the Bailey Bridge.

Fed up with traffic congestion, one New Westminster neighbourhood took its fight to city hall and won. Shortly before 5 p.m.

An ad-hoc parent group that recently formed in response to the New Westminster school district’s failed fiscal management is holding its first public meeting this month. Parents for Public Education (P4PE) will meet on Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m.

The New Westminster Secondary School parent advisory council is urging all high school parents to attend this Thursday’s meeting for an update on the district’s budget.

City's top cops talk about crime fighting in New West

For the last five years, Hume Park Elementary has had to fight to stay open, and now parents at the school are going to have to pull out their boxing gloves one more time.

New West politicians continue to visit cities in effort to drum up support for their Pattullo plan

Jack Campbell passes away on Saturna Island

The New Westminster school district is looking at more than $2.69 million in unfunded cost pressures next year and wants the public to weigh in on where it should cut to offset the hefty shortfall.