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Brentlawn Drive is still an unsafe haven for rat runners, despite numerous complaints to the city from residents in the past 16 months. In a letter dated Feb.

Arne and Iris Sorbo will soon be reunited in the same Fraser Health care home after a year-and-a-half apart.

It seems firefighters won't be getting a new contract anytime soon after an unsuccessful round of mediated talks between the union and the city.

It’s been one year and one week since a 21-year-old Burnaby resident was killed near the Lougheed SkyTrain station. Marvin Benitez was found in a pedestrian underpass in cardiac arrest near Austin Road and Lougheed Highway around 7:30 p.m. on Feb.

Eighty-eight-year-old Arne Sorbo misses his wife. The retired Burnaby accountant met Iris when she was just 16. He was 24 and fresh off the boat from Norway. She was his best friend’s cousin, and her parents had picked him up at the train station.

Jennifer Woodside has already been through the worst day of her life. It was April 4, 2014, when her 21-year-old son, Dylan, went to sleep and never woke up. "Nothing can be worse than that day I went through," Woodside said.

A Burnaby man who passed away has left $2.8 million in his will to improve Metro Vancouver parks. George Ross, a longtime Burnaby resident who enjoyed the outdoors, left the money to Metro Vancouver, which will use it to improve the region’s parks.

A 44-year-old man is in critical condition in hospital after he crawled out of the bushes near Highway 1 and Gaglardi Way. According to Burnaby RCMP, two witnesses spotted the man emerging from the bushes around 5:20 a.m.

Burnaby’s community policing committee has a new name. The new public safety committee, as it’s now called, held its first meeting on Feb. 3 at city hall.

Burnaby is one step closer to cracking down on unauthorized secondary suites in the city. On Monday, council received an update on the city’s secondary suite program, which is heading into its third phase.