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TransLink customers who missed out on the last batch of Compass Card wristbands are in luck because that another batch of 10,000 Adult Compass Wristbands have now gone on sale.

A former Iraqi refugee who tried to hang himself in the Burnaby RCMP cells just three months earlier was among the hundreds of Middle Eastern men apparently caught up in a DNA sweep by police investigating the murder of 13-year-old Marrisa Shen.

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Conventional treatments for breast cancer are effective in helping save lives. But the power of the mind is effective too.

Postal workers in Burnaby took over a post office near Metrotown on Thursday to give the public a sneak peek of their vision for a 21 st century post office – a vision that addresses climate change and inequality.

Compliments brand chicken nuggets have been recalled from the marketplace due to a possible salmonella contamination. The popular frozen food is sold in nearly every Canadian province, excluding Quebec.

Three different versions of the punch that killed 22-year-old Michael Page-Vincelli at a Burnaby Starbucks two-and-a-half years ago were put to a B.C. Supreme Court jury this week in the trial of a couple accused of manslaughter in his death.

Environment and Climate Change Canada says a dredging company based out of New Westminster has been fined $350,000 for depositing a damaging substance into water frequented by fish in British Columbia.

The mother of the Port Coquitlam teen who took her own life after a vicious campaign of online harassment, said anti-cyber bullying campaigns in schools are starting to make a difference.

George Munro is done with work now that he’s won nearly $26 million. Actually, he was done with work long before he and his wife, Rowena Inyallie, won the Lotto Max Draw on Feb. 22.