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"Living downtown, the great advantage is you are so close to everything. You've got access to retail shops, you got access to the shops, and you've got excellent access to transit," says Coun.

The City of New Westminster has identified five projects that are good to go if grants are available.

Tom Lively, president and CEO of Fraser River Pile and Dredge, presented Adrienne Bakker, president and CEO of Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation, with a cheque for $10,000 for the Foundation's SHINE Gala.

There are three weekends this summer that the Pattullo Bridge will be closed for maintenance and repairs.

During the 1930s, when it got too hot in Vancouver, gamblers would drive to New Westminster's Chinatown to play their luck. The city's Chinatown had some of the best gambling in the Lower Mainland, local historian and author Jim Wolf says.

One hundred and forty years ago, in 1873, local communities were looking forward to a special day or two to mark Dominion Day (for Canada) and Independence Day (for the USA).

The Fraser River Discover Centre is calling on Kinder Morgan to protect the Fraser River.

A Douglas College leadership program that sends students to work for non-profit organizations in Zambia has won a provincial award of achievement in international education.

A proposed waste-to-energy facility is back on the front burner at Metro Vancouver.

It was a sobering affair at Tuesday's board of education meeting. Secretary-treasurer Al Balanuik presented the board with the final budget numbers to be submitted to the Ministry of Education.