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Seniors in residential care in Burnaby are going to get more help with day-to-day activities thanks to a nearly $4 million increase in care-aide funding for local care homes this year.

B.C. Supreme Court justice dismissed a request he step aside from Trans Mountain case

Tsleil-Waututh Nation – whose court challenge led to the court tossing the federal review of the Trans Mount pipeline expansion project – filled its written submissions today to the National Energy Board’s reconsideration of the project.

Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver says he’s livid about allegations of misspending by two top officials at the B.C. legislature, adding his party would block their return to work.

Can the province find the 14,000 skilled labourers needed to build major infrastructure?

A dramatic police takedown took place on the Burnaby/Vancouver border on Monday - right in the middle of crowded traffic. It all started in Richmond, with a woman being left injured and shaken after a car-jacking incident at her home.

“You don’t have to be in the building long to know that something is off.” So said Alan Mullen, the special advisor to B.C.

The public is invited to an upcoming information session being held by the federal review panel for the proposed Roberts Bank Terminal 2 container terminal project. The event will take place Wednesday, Jan.

Canada Post has released its Year of the Pig stamp in honour of the upcoming Lunar New Year, and some Richmondites have already added it to their collections.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project will have “significant environmental effects,” but these are “justified” because the project is of utmost national importance.