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It isn’t just local residents who are worried about the city’s low rental housing stock – Coun. Colleen Jordan spoke about the issue at the March 30 council meeting.

The B.C. Cancer Foundation benefited from an unexpected act of kindness in Burnaby last Friday. Longtime resident Pat Kostuk pulled into the Shell gas station at Canada Way and Willingdon Avenue around 8 a.m. to fill her tank and grab a coffee.

The City of Burnaby finished 2014 very much in the green, according to draft financial statements presented to the audit committee last week. Burnaby's annual surplus last year was $101 million more than projected in its 2014 budget.

Two seniors staffers at a Burnaby Care home have been fired for their alleged involvement in a pyramid scheme. The two employees worked at St. Michael's Centre, a local seniors' home that also provides hospice care.

In April you can expect two things in the Heights – April showers and lots of delicious cuisine.

Wondering what your teen is getting up to online? The Burnaby RCMP is hosting a free workshop on teenagers’ online activities next month, part of the detachment's safe community series.

Elsie Dean, a longtime activist in Burnaby, recently won the City of Burnaby’s 2014 Outstanding Citizen of the Year award. “I couldn’t imagine it,” she told the NOW after being named for the award. “It’s quite an honour.

As the 2014 fiscal year wraps up, Burnaby RCMP is looking ahead to address five priorities it considers critical issues in the city. The issues identified as most critical include property crime, youth, road safety, violent crimes and drug activity.

If a tree falls in Burnaby, but no one attends the public hearing that determines its fate, does it make a sound? The falling of a particularly large group of trees is causing a Burnaby resident to pipe up on the property’s behalf.

A Burnaby school district proposal to roll a four-classroom addition into Montecito Elementary School's seismic upgrade project has been rejected by the province.