Local News

No strike days expected next week as teachers prepare for AGM

New West kids get out and play

New Westminster council approves 1.91 per cent tax increase for the coming year

Pedagogy Toys ends its run at the River Market

School will be in session next week, now that the B.C. Teachers' Federation has postponed the possibility of another one-day strike.

A longtime New Westminster employer is laying off almost a third of its workforce. Kruger Products paper mill is shutting down its production of raw paper rolls for the industrial market and letting go of 187 employees.

Exploitation of Burnaby and New Westminster youth in the sex trade tends to happen online and through "boyfriend" relationships, according to a city task force.

The Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Association recently elected a new board of directors. Andy Bradshaw from the British Store is president.

Fourteen-year-old NWSS student made comments about possibly having a gun at school