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New Westminster MLA Dawn Black is endorsing candidates for city council and school board. Black said she has always worked with members of city council and school board on local issues.

Activist Paul Mulagu has spent his last night hungry and sleeping on the street in protest of the closing of the Centre of Integration for African Immigrants, the non-profit centre he started.

New Westminster police are looking for a man they say robbed a bank on 10th Street on Tuesday morning. According to a release from Sgt. Gary Weishaar, the man entered the bank just before 10 a.m. and demanded money from an employee.

Local students are scheduled to start receiving report cards as early as next week, but what will be in those report cards is another matter. Public school employers will ask the B.C.

We've all been caught with a bit of candy on our face this time of year, but one New Westminster resident may be walking around soon, quite literally, with his face on candy.

Chuck Puchmayr may have been the NDP labour critic during his time serving as New Westminster's MLA in Victoria, but he didn't get the nod from the New Westminster and District Labour Council.

The New Westminster Public Library will re-open at noon today after a one-day closure due to the discovery of bedbugs in its collection. Late Monday afternoon, a live bed bug and several dead ones were found in an area of the library's collection.

Two local unions are teaming up to give residents a chance to hear from New Westminster board of education candidates. The New Westminster Teachers Union and CUPE Local 409 are co-hosting an all-candidates meeting for school board candidates.

African immigrant activist Paul Mulangu has extended his hunger strike and protest outside the now-closed Centre of Integration for African Immigrants.