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Burnaby council has approved the installation of a crosswalk for the 4300 block of Still Creek Drive. An overhead signed crosswalk with down lighting is slated to be installed in front of 4321 Still Creek Dr. next spring.

When they mayor's away, the councillors don't play - they take his place. Each councillor gets a turn in the big seat as acting mayor, appearing at events when Mayor Derek Corrigan is unavailable.

An eight-year-old girl was severely injured after being hit by a truck on the Island Highway West in Bowser, north of Qualicum Bay. The incident happened around 1: 48 p.m. on Boxing Day on the highway near Fisheries Road.

A 36-year-old Burnaby woman and her four-and six-year-old daughters died in a Dec. 21 car crash on the Trans-Canada Highway just west of Rogers Pass. The three were coming from Calgary back to their Burnaby home.

Salmon in Burnaby's Byrne Creek appear to be making a comeback after years of chemical spills.

It's one of the fastest-growing crimes in the city, and the Burnaby RCMP are hoping that people will be extra careful with their smartphones.

B.C. teachers and their employer are back at the bargaining table after the holidays, but the government's net-zero mandate seems to be the sticking point preventing any progress.

Burnaby and other Lower Mainland municipalities are paying more this year to dump garbage at waste transfer and disposal stations.

If there was a main 2011 civic affairs story in Burnaby, aside from November's election, it was the fast and furious pace of development in Metrotown and throughout the city's other town centres.

The fundraising efforts of the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation recently got a boost in the form of a $30,000 donation from the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation of Canada's Burnaby team. Work is already underway for the $5.