Serial killer Robert Pickton was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder. The Supreme Court of Canada has given Robert Pickton more scope in his coming appeal to try to overturn his conviction on six counts of murdering women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Debt is not a four-letter word in New Westminster city hall. Despite being a growing concern. The city’s mounting debt includes $6.7 million for the police building, $4 million for the Moody Park Outdoor Pool and $8 million for the purchase of the Westminster Pier lands. And in the near future, $8.5 million for the remediation and building of a park on the pier site.

After three years of planning, construction at the former Labatt Brewery site in Sapperton is slated to begin in late February or early March. Located adjacent to Royal Columbian Hospital, developer Wesgroup Properties says the delay was the result of the detailed planning required to develop its master plan for the large-scale project—and was not the result of a softening economy.

A recently announced independent judicial inquiry into the dwindling Fraser River sockeye salmon returns has two years to deliver its final report but MP Peter Julian is concerned salmon stocks will continue to decline during that time. There are some things that can be done now, rather than wait for the results of the inquiry, he said.

Frustrated with the slow progress being made on the planning for three new schools in the district, New Westminster parents are again calling for a meeting with the provincial Minister of Education. The District Parent Advisory Council (DPAC) fired off a letter this week to Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid with the request.

The vast majority of passengers pay to ride transit, despite public perception that fare evasion is high. Transit Police ticketed 1,000 people for fare evasion in an enforcement blitz in October.

Another 1.4 million doses of H1N1 vaccine are expected to arrive in B.C. over the next two weeks. Despite declining H1N1 flu activity, the virus killed four more B.C. residents and hospitalized 105 others over the past week.

A portion of the old Zellers at Royal City Centre will soon be home to a relocated, expanded, redefined—and renamed—Lady Dyna-fit Health & Fitness. Construction has been underway for several weeks at the corner of Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue, where the company plans to open a 15,000 square foot facility in the glassed-in atrium.

The Port Mann Bridge is being rebuilt as a new 10-lane span set to open in 2013. Truckers angry with low hauling rates are threatening to halt work on projects like the South Fraser Perimeter Road and the expansion of the Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1.

The next public clinic to receive the H1N1 vaccine in New Westminster is: When: Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1-7 p.m. Where: Queen's Park Arena, (at First Street and 3rd Avenue) Vaccines available: Both seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccines Open to: all individuals over six months old For more information visit http://www.gov.bc.ca/h1n1/

New Westminster is selling off a property it purchased in 2008 as the proposed site for the Downtown multi-purpose civic centre.

Miracles. They happen all the time. All around us. We're not talking about the parting-the-Red-Sea, or the walking-on-water kind of miracles, but the kind that happen surprisingly often in today's world.

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie chairs Metro Vancouver's finance committee. It's not every year politicians get a 25 per cent pay raise – especially in the midst of the deepest recession in decades.

Larry Gilmour, 55, unsuccessfully panhandles former federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion in downtown Victoria, where Dion attended a meeting on homelessness in November 2007.

Television news reporter and bestselling author Mike McCardell will attend a book signing for his newly-released book, The Expanded Reilly Method Saturday, Nov. 28 at Black Bond Books, Royal City Centre in New Westminster at 1 p.m.

Man acts out his own life in a theatre production

New Westminster residents will likely face a property tax increase next year and more than half of the city’s residents would rather pay more, instead of having services cut.

For many years, teens who sat on the New Westminster youth advisory committee must have felt like longtime Vancouver Canucks fans do. At the start of every year, lots of promise and wishful thinking. In the end, nothing to show for it. But, unlike Canucks fans, those on the advisory committee—and all youth in the city—no longer have to say ‘Maybe next year.’ Their long promised youth centre is ...

Departing TransLink CEO Tom Prendergast is returning to run New York's transit system. Keep the pressure on to get the kind of transit system the region needs.

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone spoke to Metro Vancouver business and civic leaders Thursday. Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone says the controversial congestion charge he forced on his city's motorists was a winning strategy to beat gridlock, but one that might be difficult to replicate here.