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Aging structures are forcing rescue group to seek help from the public

Simon Fraser University is being criticized for axing two programs designed to prepare indigenous students for entry into university.

Burnaby residents will see a 2.95 per cent property tax increase when they get their 2017 bill in the mail. City council approved the hike, part of the city’s five-year financial plan, at a meeting Monday night.

A 30-year-old woman was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries Monday night after being hit by a car on Hastings Street in the Heights neighbourhood.

Burnaby firefighters had to work hard to extinguish an intense Metrotown apartment fire Monday night that sent two people to hospital with second- and third-degree burns. Crews arrived at a 23-floor highrise at 6070 McMurray Ave. at 9:26 p.m.

Local politicians ask national energy regulator to extend the statement of opposition deadline

Burnaby firefighters braved intense heat and chunks of falling concrete to extinguish a blaze that left three vehicles gutted in a highrise parkade. Crews were called to the Burnaby Centre Apartments on Grange Street at about 9:20 p.m. on Thursday.

The Burnaby RCMP are still investigating the alleged assault of a campaign worker at Anne Kang’s office last week.

The Kinder Morgan pipeline, homelessness and education were some of the hot issues that dominated the discussion at an all-candidates meeting this week at Capitol Hill Elementary School.

Human rights complaint alleges he was fired because the city found his disability 'overwhelming'