Opinion

Do you know what to do when you're feeling threatened or scared on the SkyTrain?

To finish renovations, New Westminster Public Library’s Main Branch will be closed from Feb. 25 until Sunday March 31. We are excited to re-open our newly renovated library on April 1, 2019.

Now is a good time to prune many of your permanent garden plants. Just when you were getting used to the comfort of the couch and a warm winter fire, Mark and Ben come along to spoil it.

My sensible wife reminds me that Valentine’s Day is only a Hallmark holiday – a day when florists are overwhelmed selling roses at the highest prices of the year and when you should have made a reservation if you wanted an intimate night out.

British Columbia experienced another record year of drug overdose deaths in 2018 with at least one person dying on all but 11 days. Those are the devastating numbers released by the BC Coroners Service.

When all is said and done on winter 2019, TransLink did an overall good job. It had some rough patches – especially on Monday when SkyTrain turned into a gong show in many places. But Tuesday and Wednesday have been pretty good.

Just like every snowflake is unique, so too are Vancouverites’ reactions to snowflakes, particularly when it blankets the city — at first transforming the streets into a winter wonderland, then plunging society into a snowy hellscape of terrible driv

During the weeks leading up to Christmas, I was hit hard by the desire to ditch the holidays and head out to a sunny destination with my family instead.

New Westminster made history last week when it became the first city in British Columbia to apply new rental residential tenure zoning to existing rental housing stock.

Feb. 6 was an anniversary of sorts – the exact date 90 years ago in 1929 when Richard McBride School in the Sapperton neighbourhood of New Westminster was destroyed by fire.