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New Burnaby facility will be equipped with $12 million in specialized simulation equipment

The redevelopment of Burnaby Hospital may still be years away, but staff at the aging health-care facility got some good news this week. On Thursday, the Health Ministry announced it will spend $8.

A Burnaby resident who failed to pay back $23,712 in student loans 25 years ago has now been ordered pay the government more than twice as much, according to a B.C. Supreme Court judgment posted online last month.

Four Burnaby robots, representing a total of about 1,200 hours of student labour, took to the floor for their last VEX Robotics Competition of the season Saturday.

Staff at a Burnaby gas station were threatened with a hypodermic needle during a robbery Sunday. Burnaby RCMP were called to the Shell station in the 4100 block of North Road at about 12:30 p.m.

A year and a half after a windstorm swept through Burnaby, downing trees and leaving about 50,000 residents without power, the city is looking at installing an emergency power supply at some of its buildings.

Burnaby RCMP are investigating a stabbing in North Burnaby Wednesday afternoon. Officers were called to the 4500 block of Georgia Street at about 2:20 p.m. and found a 19-year-old man suffering from stab wounds.

A 56-year-old man who admitted to committing child sex offences in Burnaby and then breaching his bail conditions has been sentenced to three years and four months in jail and three years of probation.

An RCMP officer who shot a 35-year-old man after a fatal stabbing in a Burnaby home two years ago has been cleared of wrongdoing in his death by B.C.’s police watchdog.

Trans Mountain's director of emergency management speaks to updated risk assessment