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The proposed upgrade to Metrotown SkyTrain has a benchmark price of $37 million. More than 60,000 riders will notice drastic changes in increments at the bustling Burnaby SkyTrain station if the project gets approved.

While C. difficile cases still exist at Burnaby Hospital, there’s been no outbreak at the facility since last December.

In an effort to stave off another Great Depression or 2008 stock market crash, Burnaby is supporting a Canadian push to limit banking powers.

Although customs most likely won’t accept it, Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has been named an honorary citizen of a sister city in China. Corrigan has received a gold medal to represent the honorary citizenship he’s received from Zhongshan, China.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Operation Red Nose officially kicks off this weekend, and organizers are reminding people to plan for a safe ride home this holiday season.

Burnaby has gone to the dog sellers. At Monday night’s city council meeting, an Oct. 21 staff report amending the animal control bylaw, banning the sale of turtles, but continuing to allow the sale of puppies, kittens and sterilized rabbits, passed.

Ring-necked pheasant has been around for years but is an introduced species

TransLink is coming to Burnaby to update the aging SkyTrain trains - and is dedicating a significant chunk of change to re-track an area that once had them. Last week, TransLink announced that it will use $37.9 million, $28.

Friday was the final cap in the story about the former Burnaby dentist with an illegal practice on the run from the law. On Nov. 22, after Tung Sheng (David) Wu turned himself in to the Toronto Police on Nov.

The autopsy results are in, and biologists have new information on the infamous snakehead fish that was captured in a Burnaby pond in 2012.