Burnaby News

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency conducted only 42 tests of retail fish in B.C. over the past three years to ensure consumers are getting what they pay for - a number so small that critics say it does little to deter offenders.

United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche being taken into custody in Texas on May 17, 2008.

Police investigate an incident involving a business owner and a van in south Burnaby Thursday.

Vancouver city council needs to know this month whether the Vancouver Art Gallery will be moving ahead with plans to relocate to the inner False Creek harbour, according to councillor Heather Deal .

Police in Burnaby are investigating after a man died in an incident involving a van.

There is plenty of fun to be had across Metro Vancouver on Canada Day. Keep in mind, there will be plenty of bus re-routes, so check translink.ca for details.

When Kathlina Whatley and her classmates started Grade 8 at John Oliver secondary school five years ago, students regularly set fires in lockers, pulled fire alarms, and even sprayed the school with bear Mace.

Defence Construction Canada is holding a series of seminars across B.C. to help contractors and consulting engineers understand the process of gaining security clearance for work on federal government contracts.

It didn't take Ken Neufeld long to buy a home in Oakwood or sell his old one in Buffalo, N.Y. Both were completed in a 48-hour period.

A new garbage incinerator is the best solution to deal with the Lower Mainland's growing garbage problem, according to Metro Vancouver officials.

A few dogs roaming around a Burnaby neighbourhood. That's how it all started. Last Thursday, the SPCA was told of a possible puppy mill, or doggy daycare, in the area of Dawson Street and Beta Avenue.

Surrey - Canadian Press, Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 05:25AM EDT A Surrey, B.C., man on parole for murder has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of his 59-year-old wife, who was herself a convicted murderer.

Canadian Liberal leader and leader of the opposition Michael Ignatieff and his wife Zsuzsanna Zsohar take part in a candlelight vigil for Iran in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Thursday.

Council has approved a 2.51 per cent pay increase for itself. Using a formula developed in 2007 based on the consumer price index, average weekly wage increase in B.C. and the 2008 CUPE Local 23 increase, Mayor Derek Corrigana s salary will increase from $95,029 in 2008 to $97,414 in 2009.

Long-time Burnaby resident Ray Culos has written Vancouver's Shoeshine Boys about Italian immigrants shining shoes in downtown Vancouver.

Climate change, according to environmentalist Helen Spiegelman, is the most urgent issue facing the world today.

The Canadian Federation of Students has got the backing it wanted from council in calling for TransLink to provide universal transit passes to all post-secondary institutions and not just SFU and UBC.

A search on the other side of the ocean for the family of a Canadian First World War vet has led to a search on the other side of Canada.

A worker at the GVRD waste to energy plant looks on as garbage is incinerated to be turned into electricity and steam energy.

Spectators in the public gallery applauded Friday as a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Brenda Blondell and Andrea James guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Mya Kulchyski.