Local News

Today is the last day to get rid of your shreddables at Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby. Metropolis is holding a document-shredding event today, Friday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Resident questions why Burnaby utility rates are higher than those in neighbouring municipalities

Plans to improve Edmonds Street from Kingsway to Canada Way are moving ahead. Council approved the motion to finance the capital project at Monday's council meeting. The work comes with an estimated price tag of $2.7 million.

The Burnaby RCMP are looking for witnesses to help them track down whoever's responsible for a spate of tire slashings in northeast Burnaby. According to Burnaby RCMP Insp. Tim Shields, police received calls just after 2:45 a.m.

School's out forever: The old Burnaby Central Secondary School is being demolished this week. The new school opened in September, though some work remains to be completed.

A well-known former resident of Burnaby has passed away at the age of 91. Harold Craven "cared about everything from the country's debt to the environment," said his son Stephen.

Burnaby council has approved plans for this year's Local Government Awareness Week, taking place from May 20 to 26.

Burnaby firefighters spent much of Friday morning responding to a hazardous materials call at Toyo Pumps at 2853 Douglas Rd.

The New Westminster Police Service's major crime unit is looking for assistance in identifying a man who they believe may be a witness to a sexual assault that occurred in New Westminster on Feb. 6.

Ten Burnaby RCMP members were honoured Tuesday for being part of Alexa's Team, the group formed in remembrance of Alexa Rene Middelaer, who died in May 2008 at age four-and-a-half after being run down by a vehicle car by an impaired driver.