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Burnaby South High School's class of '47 looks back during 70-year reunion

City of Burnaby employees took home a combined total of $158.48 million last year, according to the 2016 statement of financial information ( SOFI ). Of the 3,777 employees, 738 of them made more than $75,000, 14 more when compared to the 2015 SOFI.

A Burnaby parent took the school district to task this week for blocking a school trip to London, England because of concerns about terrorism.

The City of Burnaby is looking into stiffer penalties for illegal dumping.

The Burnaby school board will be down a trustee until the next municipal election in October 2018.

More than half of people’s garbage is contaminated with recyclable or compostable waste, according to a 2016 audit. The City of Burnaby studied 100 single- and two-family households from each collection zone over two weeks last summer.

A Burnaby woman wants to see more bear-resistant bins in her neighbourhood after black bears were found rummaging through garbage last week.

Terry Beech was one of two Liberal MPs who voted against a motion in support of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain expansion project in the House of Commons this week.

Building a commencement address around words like “proboscis” and “calcium,” a Burnaby teacher surprised his school’s grad class with a spoken word poem for their leaving ceremony last Wednesday.

A serial armed robber from the Yukon who once escaped custody by running shoeless from a Whitehorse courtroom was arrested at a Burnaby SkyTrain station last week.