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Carla Brown's wedding invitation will be among the memorabilia contained in a time capsule at Queensborough Community Centre.

The Soup Nazi is returning to the Royal City to help raise funds for local lacrosse teams.

The skies will light up over the Fraser River during the opening celebrations of the Lowe's Hyack Festival. The Hyack Festival Association will kick off its 41st annual festival on Friday, May 18 with fireworks on the Fraser River waterfront.

École Herbert Spencer Elementary School's principal says she knows the torture of young love when she sees it in her students. Tracy Fulton has been there.

The New Westminster police department is warning residents to be extra vigilant after a rash of car thefts in the Royal City over the last two weeks.

The Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine is inviting residents to celebrate Naturopathic Medicine Week. The institute is holding its annual open house on Saturday, May 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 435 Columbia St.

The federal Conservatives have gone ahead with a move scientists have feared: removing the term "habitat" from a key section of the Fisheries Act. New Westminster MP and fisheries critic Fin Donnelly was not surprised.

The City of New Westminster continues to seek input from residents about the Pattullo Bridge, but many citizens oppose plans to build a six-lane crossing from New Westminster to Surrey.

One person's trash is another person's treasure, and that may be the case on May 12 when the Queen's Park garage sale in support of Canuck Place takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Both of the hospital units that were shut down in late April at Royal Columbian Hospital due to an outbreak of the highly infectious C. difficile bacteria have now been reopened. C.