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Director of engineering says city looking into whether tolls on Port Mann Bridge affect local traffic

Work begins on project at Trapp and Holbrook blocks, plans to open in 2015/2016

New Westminster residents join activist group in demanding more clean, affordable housing for low-income people

The cupboards are bare - that's the message the New Westminster board of education is sending the Ministry of Education in response to the province's request to develop "savings plans" to help pay for wage increases for support staff at schools.

The City of New Westminster is seeing tremendous interest in development projects throughout the downtown.

Here is the list of recommendations from Fraser Health (the district's response to the status of the suggestion is listed in brackets): 1.

There's always a little battle of wills at bedtime around our house. Not over paja-mas or staying up late (my kids are still a bit too young to realize they might have a say in the matter) but over which books will be read for bedtime.

Non-profit group looking for donations to help homeless during the winter season

A longtime Queensborough grocery store owner has passed away. Benny Jow, who ran Benny's Mart in Queensborough, died on Jan. 10. Jow, 76, came to Vancouver in 1956 from Guangdong, China and in 1961, married wife Mary.

Birders are aflutter about the presence of a rarely seen bird and are flocking to Queen's Park to take a look. A report on the B.C. Rare Bird Alert website states that a red-flanked bluetail was found Feb.