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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.

Memorial recognizes murdered women in B.C.

Overcrowding and safety issues spur plan to rebuild lot at popular summer destination

Burnaby RCMP is urging teens to avoid spreading rumours online, after a false school-shooting threat spread among Burnaby South Secondary students on social media earlier this week, eating up police resources and scaring students and parents.

Fewer things brighten up a ferry ride to or from Vancouver Island more than a little wildlife spotting. Such was the case this week when a man taking the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay filmed a pod of 200 dolphins swimming alongside a B.C.