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Burnaby’s top cop is urging parents not to buy imitation firearms as Christmas presents for their kids. The warning comes after a pair of local police incidents involving realistic replica handguns.

A landlord who tried to deny an accounting firm the option to buy its leased office space in Burnaby’s Koreatown after the property’s value jumped by $350,000 has lost in court. Go Ha & Associates Ltd.

A major sports event is coming to Burnaby. Athletics Canada announced today (Friday) that Burnaby will play host to the 2019 and 2020 Canadian 10,000-metre Championships.

A senior paramedic in British Columbia is encouraging homeowners to buy carbon monoxide detectors and inspect their appliances following a spike in poisonings in the past week. Leon Baranowski, paramedic practice leader with B.C.

Fraud happens in many different and ingenious ways. It’s through cyberattacks on our computers and emails, through our bank accounts and our cell phones. No one is immune from being targeted and it’s only going to get worse.

A renowned astrophysicist is coming to Burnaby on Monday to talk about hunting planets. Dr.

Somewhere at the intersection of the opioid crisis and the doctor shortage, Ron Schlosberg became an accident victim again. The 75-year-old Victoria man has been using pain medication for close to 20 years.

A Burnaby linen cleaning facility had to be evacuated Wednesday night because of gas-line rupture. A worker who smelled gas at K-Bro Linen Systems (8035 Enterprise St.) activated an alarm shortly before 11 p.m.

Now that winter is almost upon us, people can expect to see more coyotes in the coming months. This is the time when coyote’s parents give their young ones the boot and expect them to forage for themselves.

“Washrooms, here we come.” That was what TransLink board chair Lorraine Cunningham said at today’s open board meeting as members voted to move forward with a plan to “increase the availability of customer washrooms along the regional transit system.