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Were you in the area of Kingsway and 14th Avenue on May 21? Burnaby RCMP are looking to speak with anyone who may have witnessed a robbery at 11:53 p.m. on Thursday, May 21. Anyone with information is asked to call 604-294-7922 and speak with Const.

Burnaby-based Wildlife Rescue Association takes bird into care

Burnaby RCMP had some special visitors last week. Cadets from the People’s Public Security University of Beijing stopped by the local detachment last Friday to meet with Burnaby RCMP officers.

Volunteers behind the campaign to recall Burnaby MLA Richard Lee are feeling more than excluded from Hats Off Day.

Payday loan companies may soon find it harder to set up shop in the city. City council took steps towards restricting payday lender locations in Burnaby at Monday night’s meeting, after receiving a detailed staff report on the topic.

An ambitious plan for Lougheed Town Centre’s core area is moving ahead, with the draft concept plan going to a second open house.

Local surgeons who have long called for Fraser Health to open another operating room at Burnaby Hospital to cut down long surgical wait lists will get their way by September. Fraser Health announced last week it would spend $1.

A mattress-recycling company has reopened in Burnaby after a fire ripped through its south Vancouver depot last week, leaving 45 employees out of work. Fabio Scaldaferri, owner of Mattress Recycling, had closed up shop at 5 p.m.

Yellow transportation and transit plebiscite envelopes emerged from cluttered desks and glove compartments all over Burnaby and surrounding communities on the last day of the vote Friday and found their way into ballot boxes at the Lougheed Town Cent

The bail hearing for the fourth suspect accused in the death of Luka Gordic has been postponed until mid-June. Arvin Golic, 18, was in court in North Vancouver on May 28 for a bail hearing; however, the hearing was postponed until June 15.