Local News

The Record has been named a finalist for overall excellence in this year's provincial community journalism awards - and one of its reporters has made the short-list as well. The B.C.

Local parent Lisa Chao is appealing a $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 Westminster Secondary School.

The bitter contract negotiations between the B.C. Teachers' Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers Association may come to a legislated end.

The 2012 provincial budget released Tuesday should give businesses in New Westminster reason to be cautiously optimistic, according to the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce.

The Record has been named a finalist for overall excellence in this year's provincial community journalism awards - and one of its reporters has made the short-list as well. The B.C.

Trustee Casey Cook says the board of education lost an "opportunity" to put the ongoing conflict-of-interest issue to bed when trustees voted down two motions on Tuesday night.

Several new businesses have found a home in the Plaza at New Westminster Station. The Plaza, which is the commercial development being built around the New Westminster SkyTrain station, is home to Safeway and Shoppers Drug Mart.

St. George's is in the Lower Mainland AAA boys' basketball tournament, but that is not the end of the ongoing controversy between public and independent schools.

Former New Westminster alderman and school trustee Wes Janzen passed away Sunday morning at the age of 91.

TransLink is looking for New Westminster residents' input into the Pattullo Bridge replacement project. The Pattullo Bridge, which opened in 1937, doesn't meet current road and seismic design guidelines.