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Former Burnaby Jr. Laker Garrett Billings had a Mann Cup to remember, but his team came home empty-handed.

One man is dead after a Monday afternoon car accident near the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Willingdon Avenue. The man was driving an SUV eastbound on Lougheed Highway when he hit a two-ton truck.

The Burnaby RCMP are looking for four men who broke into two Metrotown jewelry stores early Friday morning. According to Cpl. Rick Skolrood of the Burnaby RCMP, police responded to the Metropolis at Metrotown shopping centre just after 3:30 a.m.

City of Burnaby staff are recommending councillors back Chevron's plea to the National Energy Board for a more steady supply of crude from Kinder Morgan's pipeline to the North Burnaby refinery.

Transit police are asking the public to help them identify a man accused of grabbing a 12-year-old girl's buttocks while on a bus to Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown shopping centre two weeks ago. On Aug. 31 at 3:45 p.m.

Low-income seniors who live in the Kingsway Court highrise at 5560 Inman Avenue will be without power for 12 to 14 hours on Monday. B.C. Hydro is shutting down power to the building from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

A federal government office has brought Gary Birch, executive director of the Burnaby-based Neil Squire Society, along to New York City to attend a United Nations conference on the rights of people with disabilities.

Smooth waters: Paddlers on Deer Lake on a recent Monday afternoon were enjoying the nice weather. Environment Canada is predicting sun this weekend, from Friday to Sunday, apart from partial clouds on Saturday

Unionized support workers at Burnaby's Simon Fraser University campus could be heading to the picket lines soon. The support workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 3338, are set to hold a strike vote from Sept. 25 to 27.

More than 30 years ago, the first Terry Fox Run was held to raise money for cancer research, and the Marathon of Hope continues to inspire.