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The controversy around giving drug users prescribed alternative drugs like hydromorphone amped up when a B.C. Coroners Service death review panel recommended opening the program up to those without prescriptions.

After a year as an appointed premier, B.C. Premier David Eby won a 93 per cent approval rating from NDP delegates on Saturday. Now he has 11 months — at most — to prepare for an election.

ETRO Construction and Belmar Consulting were among nine companies honoured this week by the Burnaby Board of Trade.

This letter writer says Burnaby Heights businesses don't own the public roads in front of their shops and urges council to approve the Purple Line bus lane along Hastings Street.

Price check, watch out for false advertising and double check the return policies, business experts advise.

Kyle Evan Grant, 38, has been released on bail twice since a violent confrontation with Transit Police at the Sperling-Burnaby Lake SkyTrain station in April. A judge declined to release him a third time after new charges this month.

Chief Dean Duthie says the department, which currently has just under 30 per cent women officers, hopes to reach 50 per cent

Despite public calls to defund the police in 2020, the budgets of Canadian police forces have continued to rise.

The Crown wrapped up its case against Ibrahim Ali Friday afternoon. Ali's lawyers have not yet disclosed whether they will present evidence or call witnesses.

One Vancouver Central Homestay owner alleges the other, a paralegal, has admitted to a gambling addiction.