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'Dream kitchen' from Rotary

The New Westminster Rotary Club is teaming up with the Cliff Block in New Westminster to serve nutritious meals to Lookout Emergency Aid Society clients and tenants.

New Westminster family safe after bomb explosions at Boston Marathon

A New Westminster family embraced at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday - in the very spot where one of two bombs soon exploded.

Residents bothered by police helicopter

Residents of New Westminster's Brow of the Hill neighbourhood may have noticed a helicopter circling the area late Wednesday night as police were searching for a driver who fled his vehicle during a traffic stop. According to Sgt.

New Westminster's Discovery Centre announces Hall of Fame inductee

New Westminster's Fraser River Discovery Centre Society recently announced plans to induct Michael Owen into its Hall of Fame for his "pioneering spirit and decades of advocacy for the river.

Making city streets safer

The city's proposing modifications at a five-leg intersection in Sapperton.

A poll with extra relish

It just wouldn't be an election in New Westminster without a bun-official election poll at Burger Heaven. Burger Heaven is giving diners a chance to "vote" in its provincial election poll until May 13.

Cadets ship out to New Zealand

A contingent from the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Fraser is taking part in an adventure of a lifetime.

'There's a human cost' to cuts - Osborne

A "lost opportunity" is how the New Westminster Teachers' Union president describes a recent board of education meeting where, he says, trustees spent too much time talking about learning supplies and not enough on the impact cutting about 20 teachin

New Westminster employee back at work after competing in Boston Marathon

Jason Haight is back at work in the Royal City, but his thoughts are back in Boston. Haight, who is the City of New Westminster's manager of business operations, returned to work Wednesday after running in Monday's Boston Marathon.

Writ dropped, the race is on

It's official. The provincial government dropped the writ April 16, paving the way for a provincial election on May 14. Anyone interested in running in the provincial general election must file nomination papers by 1 p.m. on Friday, April 26.