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It's Boxing Day, 1887. Sherlock Holmes is at home and in the midst of solving another head-scratcher.

The City of Burnaby is considering increasing property taxes by 2.9 per cent in next year's financial plan. Burnaby council received the 2013 provisional plan at Monday night's meeting, which included the proposed rate increase.

It was week two of Operation Red Nose in Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities and the numbers continue to be record-breaking.

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Not all Christmas gifts come wrapped in paper and bundled in bows. Ten-year-old Burnaby girl Katarina Lewis is giving a different kind of present his holiday season - several inches of her long blonde locks for a sick child.

Toy time: Staff and contractors at the Burnaby Chevron refinery celebrated the holidays with their second annual lunch and toy drive in support of the Burnaby Christmas Bureau.

A woman thwarted an attempted abduction last night by pepper-spraying her assailants, according to Corp. Dave Reid, media spokesperson for the Burnaby RCMP.

Amidst the debacle over the botched Burnaby Hospital consultations, local Green party activist Bruce Friesen is calling for a new hospital and a seniors' care facility for Burnaby.

The Burnaby school district has a new superintendent at the helm: Kevin Kaardal. "Our search process has shown that Kevin is the right person to provide the strong educational leadership that we have come to expect in our district.

Workers at George Derby Centre, the veterans' residential care facility in Burnaby, have had their layoff notices rescinded after the George Derby Care Society board of directors decided to abandon plans to contract out health support services.