Local News

National team member Briannah Tsang will compete at the upcoming Canadian artistic gymnastics championships in Ottawa from May 21 to 25. Feel lucky? The Central Park Horseshoe Club is looking for new members.

An article in the May 1 edition of the NOW, "Burnaby North candidate clams up on charge," stated Burnaby North B.C. Conservative candidate Wayne Marklund was found not guilty on the charge of driving while impaired.

This Saturday's Burnaby farmers' market has promised to take over city hall's parking lot and fill it with delicious goods and pretty things - while also entertaining the young ones.

NDP candidate Jane Shin is once again raising eyebrows, this time with a comment she made online 11 years ago, saying she was fed up with the "chinkasauruses roaming about Vancouver.

Now that May is here, the days are brighter and sunnier, and this weekend is no exception.

A chemistry professor at Simon Fraser University has been recognized for his pioneering work in health research with the Horace S. Isbell Award from the American Chemical Society.

The Burnaby school district sent out layoff notices to teachers in the district last week after only days before publicly approving a budget that didn't include any actual staffing layoffs.

At its April 22 meeting, council decided to participate in Local Government Awareness Week 2013, between May 19 and 25.

For his years of service to the Burnaby community, orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Kenneth C. Hill has been posthumously awarded the Spirit of Philanthropy Award by the Burnaby Hospital Foundation.

In response to the Burnaby Teachers' Association crying foul over the school district's decision to lay off 75 teachers, the Burnaby school district says layoffs are an annual occurrence In an article appearing in the May 3 Burnaby NOW, James Sanyshy