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New Westminster teachers will join their counterparts across the province Monday for a full-scale teacher's strike. Eighty-seven per cent of B.C. teachers have voted yes to escalate the current job action. Of 32,209 ballots cast, 27,946 voted yes.

A 19-year-old New Westminster man is facing firearms-related charges and a 21-year-old Surrey man has been charged with first-degree murder after a Sunday night Surrey shooting that resulted in the death of a 31-year-old Surrey man.

Two local moms say the low success rate in a math class at New Westminster Secondary School should have sounded alarm bells, and they want the district to ensure that failing students aren't left floundering.

The district didn't budge after receiving an appeal from New Westminster parent Lisa Chao to reduce the $1,385 bill that the school district would charge to cover the cost of photocopying and research for her information request for math marks at New

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Demolition of two aging apartment buildings is underway to pave the way for the first six-storey wood-frame building in New Westminster. Since the province amended the B.C.

After her professor pans her doctoral thesis on Shakespeare, a student finds herself transported into the Bard's world, where she inadvertently sends his stories in hilarious new directions - and finds her true self along the way.

Were you a student at Ecole Herbert Spencer Elementary School? If so, Spencer staff want to hear from you.

The 2012 season for the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra opens Sunday at Massey Theatre with a very special treat: an all-Beethoven concert.

New Westminster's talented music students have earned themselves more honours. The New Westminster Secondary School senior jazz band was named Best Senior Jazz Band at the 2012 Envision Jazz Festival, held in Surrey.