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The recent move to Sapperton's brewery district may be costing Transit Police an extra $1.5 million, but Chief Neil Dubord said the move comes with some major benefits. "It allows us to be able to amalgamate (TransLink) operations into one building.

In 2000, the city's Millennium Project allowed local neighbourhoods to put together a "memory book" for each neighbourhood of New Westminster.

Confession: I cried over a peachesand-cream muffin at Starbucks. No, it wasn't over the quality of the muffin.

Manon Boyle, a crossing guard at F.W. Howay Elementary School, has been helping a stream of kids, parents, strollers and dogs get across the street on their way to and from school for the past 11 years.

New Westminster police spent Wednesday afternoon attending to two separate traffic collisions; one in the 1400-block of Edinburgh Street and the other at Cumberland Street and 10th Avenue. At around 2:20 p.m.

Ten years ago, Randy Brooks first asked his longtime partner Michael Jacobs to marry him. "But I always thought, what's the point?" said Jacobs.

As TransLink continues its closures of the Pattullo Bridge for weekend repairs, a New Westminster resident is suggesting a way to extend the life of the bridge and avoid construction of a new crossing.

Should the New Westminster school district ban the practice of putting special needs students in isolation rooms? The answer is yes, according to Faith Bodnar, executive director of Inclusion B.C.

Drivers headed east along Eighth Avenue in New Westminster were rerouted July 2, after a car lost control at York Street and East Eighth Avenue, crashing into several parked vehicles. Around 11 p.m.

Since this is my first Medical File column, allow me to take a moment to introduce myself. Although I've been with The Record for more than a decade now, I've just returned to my desk from a one-year maternity leave.