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The bears are back. Conservation officer David Cox is once again warning Burnaby Mountain residents and Simon Fraser University students to keep an eye out for the bruins as recent sightings are on the rise.

Local residents will benefit from the federal government's billion-dollar long-term infrastructure fund, according to Conservative MP James Moore, who spoke in Burnaby about the budget on Friday.

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City council is concerned over a potential bite into its RCMP budget.

Burnaby RCMP are investigating a second home invasion in one week at a residence along the 6600-block of Imperial Street. The first incident happened last week, when two suspects forced their way into the home.

The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association still has its eyes on former Burnaby resident Mikhail Lennikov, an ex-KGB member who has been living in a Vancouver church, avoiding deportation since 2009.

New traffic signals at Dawson Street and Madison Avenue are one of eight road improvements across Burnaby funded by ICBC's safer roads program. In 2012, the Insurance Corporation of B.C.

It's official. The Burnaby school district is joining the rest of the Lower Mainland and moving to a two-week spring break, starting in the 2013/14 school year. School trustees voted to move to a two-week break at the March 26 school board meeting.

The woman at the centre of a civil suit launched by the Burnaby school district is now facing two criminal counts of fraud.