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The Burnaby Board of Trade is now accepting nominations for its 16th annual Business Excellence Awards. The nine categories include entrepreneurial spirit, not-for-profit organization of the year and environmental sustainability.

The Heights Merchants Association is asking residents to man the barricades on Saturday, June 6. The annual Hats Off Day celebration needs many volunteers, including people 19 and older who can take on barricade duty.

A proposal for 27 townhouses in the Rayside neighbourhood is one of five rezoning applications going to public hearing next week. The three-storey townhouse project is planned for 5037, 5057 and 5067 Claude Ave.

Look, up in the sky – it’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s Burnaby’s tallest tower. A tower so tall, Spacekraft will land there this summer.

Police officers and auxiliary constables were out knocking on doors near Moscrop Street and Smith Avenue this week in hopes of finding information about a murder and an assault that took place in the area last week.

Police are investigating after a 36-year-old man was stabbed at Metropolis at Metrotown Tuesday evening. Burnaby RCMP were called to the mall on Kingsway around 6:25 p.m.

Terminating its former superintendent could cost the Burnaby school board well over $400,000 over the next two years, according to documents obtained by the NOW .

The federal Conservatives have managed to pull the country out of deficit for the first time since the 2008 finanical crisis, but Burnaby’s two New Democrat MPs are raising criticism over how they did it.

Neighbours frustrated that it is taking more than a year for action

Investigators with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team areasking for witnesses to step forward after a 33-year-old man was found dead in southeast Burnaby last week. On April 16, while on patrol shortly before 3 a.m.