AUGUST
New Westminster and Coquitlam bridge their difference in the ongoing Bailey bridge saga with an agreement that means a two-lane crossing in the Braid industrial area. The agreement comes after an arbitrator sided with Coquitlam and supported two lanes connecting the neighbouring cities.
A Kelowna resident gets a $2,000 fine and a five-year driving prohibition in connection to the March 2013 death of Gemma Snowball. Snowball, who was a deli counter employee at the old Safeway in Royal City Centre, was on her way home from work one evening when she was struck by a vehicle driven by man making an illegal left turn at Sixth and Sixth.
New Westminster Baseball and fans of Queen’s Park Stadium come out swinging against a proposal that would see stadium renovated to accommodated a pro-soccer franchises and force baseball to be relocated elsewhere.
Port Metro Vancouver grants a project permit to Fraser Surrey Docks for a $15 million direct coal transfer facility that will see U.S. mined coal loaded on to barges at the site and shipped to China via Texada Island.
A 36-year-old man who is found dead on the bank of the Fraser River near Sapperton Landing on Aug. 16 is the city’s first murder of 2014.
Local residents and officials – including Fire Chief Tim Armstrong – embrace the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon that sweeps the globe. The challenge is raising funds for ALS.
