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New Westminster attraction adding new features just in time for the sunny season

Early in Brent Wisheart's firefighting career, he suffered second- and third-degree burns from a small explosion while extinguishing a fire on a fishing boat.

The design of New Westminster's future civic centre may need a bit of fine-tuning but it's nearly complete. The project has reached the point where the interior programming elements have been determined and the exterior design has been approved.

The New Westminster School Board is alerting parents to a couple of recent suspicious incidents of strangers approaching elementary school aged students.

Queensborough residents will have to find a new place to shop for groceries next month following an announcement that PriceSmart Foods will be closing.

Almost 10 years after running a half marathon and raising thousands of dollars for leukemia research in memory of her daughter, Marian Lowery is at it again.

For the 30 or so households on Colborne Street in the Glenbrook neighbourhood, Canada Day is a good time to catch up and have some fun.

Southern Railway of B.C. says the rail bridge between Queensborough and downtown New Westminster could be open again in a matter of weeks.

When Mitra Mahmoodi came from Iran to Canada last September, everything was different. She couldn't speak the language and had trouble with the mundane but necessary things in life: going to the bank, renting an apartment, shopping for groceries.