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While many families celebrated Thanksgiving dinner at home, ex-KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov spent the holiday in Vancouver's First Lutheran Church, avoiding deportation. The former Burnaby resident is now in his third year of church sanctuary.

Some of the region's finest culinary fare will be available to sample at a special event in Burnaby tonight. Hot Chefs, Cool Jazz is an evening of entertainment, live auctions and tasting dishes from B.C.'s hottest chefs.

What does it mean to be part of a community? And what kind of an impact does it have on our children, families and neighbours? That's the focus of an upcoming provincial gathering that will be hosted in Burnaby on Oct. 18, 19 and 20.

Thirty-one Burnaby businesses made the finalist list this week for the Burnaby Board of Trade's Business Excellence Awards. The list of names was announced Oct.

Roughly 250 people packed Confederation Seniors' Centre Wednesday night for the first public town hall meeting organized by a Burnaby residents' group opposing Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion plan.

One man is dead and another is in hospital after a workplace accident at a North Burnaby residential site. Megan Johnston of WorkSafe B.C. told the Burnaby NOW that the accident occurred at approximately 11 a.m. this Thursday morning.

Burnaby fire captain Rudy Pospisil is about halfway through his latest ride. Pospisil contacted the Burnaby NOW from just outside of Austin, Texas, where he's relaxing midway through his seven-week bicycle ride across the United States.

The arrest of a man and woman suspected in an Oct. 7 Burnaby carjacking has Vancouver police wondering if it's connected to two similar cases. The first incident happened on Oct. 2, around 11:30 p.m.

An empty deflated boat along the Burrard Inlet shoreline has Burnaby RCMP officers wondering what's happened to the owner of the boat. On Oct. 10, at approximately 5:45 p.m.