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One-time Burnaby resident Kaja Pluta wants to return to B.C. when she graduates from medical school in 2014, but she fears as a foreign-trained doctor shell be jobless.

The Association of Consulting Engineers of B.C. announced Wednesday that the City of Burnaby and its consultant, Associated Engineering, have won an award of merit in the municipal category for its Burnaby Lake rejuvenation project.

Local seniors' advocates are raising concerns about the federal government's change to eligibility requirements for old age security payments.

Two of the city's shopping centres will be hosting Easter-themed events this weekend. At Brentwood Town Centre, Good Friday will feature Story Time, including a special guest reader, from Coles Books who will read an Easter tale at 1 p.m.

Whether you remember Vancouver's heyday as a punk capital in the late 1970s and early 1980s, or whether it's a piece of music history to you, this one is sure to fascinate.

Canadian Blood Services is looking for local donors this Easter long weekend. The national non-profit group has set a target of 94 donors for a Burnaby clinic on Sunday, April 8, to meet hospital demand. They need 40 more donors to reach that target.

A man convicted of assaulting a bus driver in Burnaby last year has been handed an 18-month conditional sentence, plus two years probation.

The public hearings have yet to start, but opposition to Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion is moving ahead.

Burnaby's 2011 Citizen of the Year, Kehar Singh Aujla, is a very busy man. Aujla, who emigrated from India with his wife in 1996, began volunteering in Burnaby a decade later.

Vancouver resident Evelyn Florendo is receiving a Governor General of Canada award for her decades of work organizing Christmas dinners for teens in Burnaby's youth prison. "Of course, I'm excited," said the 76-year-old.