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This weekend’s activities focus on community – whether it’s supporting local businesses and businesspeople, helping the environment or celebrating local programs and events in New Westminster.

Carpets are being cleaned, windows washed and merchandise readied as downtown businesses prepare to reopen after last week’s fire.

It could soon begin to look a lot like Christmas – or Diwali or Canada Day – on Columbia Street.

New Westminster police remain on guard at McKenzie and Columbia streets, standing over the decimated site where a fire destroyed two New Westminster heritage buildings last week.

Fire investigators will go through the rubble of burned out buildings on Columbia Street brick by brick if that’s what is needed to determine a cause of last week’s devastating fire.

Reporter Cayley Dobie rides along as cops remind drivers how dangerous using a phone can be

The two camps involved in the Hyack showdown are both calling for the removal of one another, but one side says Hyack president Gavin Palmer might not be able to pull the trigger.

Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen are promising some “pretty funny moments” during the Homelessness Action Week fundraiser on Thursday.

Planning a wedding is enough to turn many a bride-to-be into a Bridezilla – but Donna Ross is not one of those people. After finding her dream dress at Golden Brides in New Westminster, Ross discovered her dress had been destroyed in the Oct.

New Westminster’s resiliency has shone through in the past – and shows every indication of doing that again. The 600 block of Columbia Street, home to some of the city’s most revered heritage buildings, suffered a fire on Oct.