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The City of New Westminster received a “fantastic” response to its survey about a pedestrian/bicycle crossing from the Quayside neighbourhood to Queensborough.

Are you involved in arts and culture? Do you create it, promote it, deliver it, care for it, teach it? If so, make your voice known in the city’s new cultural mapping project.

Five Hyack Festival Association board directors are resigning in light of the ongoing turmoil within the ranks at the organization that runs the city’s biggest annual festival.

The City of New Westminster is hoping to strike up a hazardous materials team to address the potential for “catastrophic” incidents in the city.

Zoom Hair Studio owner Natalia Petcu is learning how to cut her energy consumption short. Petcu’s signed her business up for a free energy assessment that helps small businesses save energy and money in their facilities.

The cash-strapped New Westminster school district is putting a for-sale sign on an empty property it owns in Queensborough in a bid to bring in revenue.

Don Choy was missing for almost two weeks, and on Oct. 20 the search came to a tragic end. Choy’s body was found in Delta on Sunday, according to a New Westminster Police Department media release. The investigation is now in the hands of the B.C.

Traffic safety blitz found fewer offenders this year

A pair of NDP MP frequent flyers say it’s time Parliamentarians looked at online voting to save taxpayers’ dollars. Peter Julian and Kennedy Stewart say it only makes sense to use technology to trump geography in a country as big as Canada.

The approximately 2,000 students and 100 staff at New Westminster Secondary School are feeling the effects of budget cuts as recent layoffs mean less access to the school’s library.