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If you find yourself swimming laps at a local pool this summer and see a mermaid glide past you in the water, don't worry, you don't need prescription goggles - she's real.

United Way of the Lower Mainland and the labour movement have been partners for more than 30 years, working towards the same community-building goals, and ensuring that workers and their families have access to social services in their communities.

Second annual fest for Afghan culture taking place this Sunday in Burnaby

A 40-year-old Burnaby man is one of six people charged this week in a case involving the import of many kilograms of cocaine into Canada and the export of ecstasy into the United States.

Burnaby RCMP have BurnabyDouglas MP Kennedy Stewart to thank for the Monday arrest of a graffiti artist. On Aug. 27, Stewart and his wife, Jeanette Ashe, spotted a man tagging the side of a building in North Burnaby.

In an effort to help immigrants in the British Columbia workforce, the B.C. Federation of Labour is offering a free ESL course this fall.

The Burnaby council chamber was packed for Tuesday night's public hearing on the master concept plan for the Brentwood Town Centre site, with people gathering outside the doors to hear the proceedings.

Teachers are heading back to the classroom with less than one year left to go on a contract that was imposed by the provincial government this summer.

The start of the fall semester should be a reminder to us all of just how important post-secondary education is to B.C.'s future.

A Burnaby man who describes himself online as a "legal marijuana owner" is facing drug charges along with his mother stemming from a police raid on what the pair called a "medical cannabis" dispensary.