Local News

The Burnaby Fire Department will be better able to communicate with other emergency services, now that its dispatch system is being integrated with B.C. Ambulance Services.

Burnaby school board chair Larry Hayes has come out against the Fraser Institute's annual ranking of schools, calling the reports "drivel." "Once again, without any apparent concern for comprehensive research, the public of B.C.

Residential, major industrial, business and recreational property taxes in the city will increase by 3.98 per cent next year. Utilities are also set to increase by 3.98 per cent. Light industrial property taxes will increase by 6.

The federal Conservatives have gone ahead with a move scientists have feared: removing the term "habitat" from a key section of the Fisheries Act. New Westminster MP and fisheries critic Fin Donnelly was not surprised.

Burnaby council approved funding for 10 festivals at Monday night's council meeting.

Federal government cuts funding for community program

A Neapolitan-style pizzeria is coming to Capitol Hill in Burnaby. Cotto Enoteca Pizzeria will be opening at 6011 Hastings St., where Anducci's restaurant was located.

The Burnaby Hospital planning committee is officially up and running and using social media to help get the word out about what it's doing - and to get ideas back from the community. The hospital has set up a Facebook account (www. facebook.

Whole Foods will be setting up shop in the Solo development at Willingdon Avenue and Lougheed Highway in North Burnaby. The company's cofounder and co-CEO, John Mackey, made the announcement last Wednesday.

A 33-year-old Burnaby woman and a 25-year-old Burnaby man are facing robbery and unlawful confinement charges after an April 30 robbery. The couple were arrested after a robbery occurred just after 1 p.m.