Police believe five per cent of the population commit 95 per cent of the crime. If that’s true, there’s a New Westminster woman whose actions support that theory. New Westminster Police Service arrested a 45-year-old woman early Tuesday for violating a court order to stay out of the 12th Street area. Since April, police have compiled 140 files on the known sex trade worker. Those files includes ...

The father of a man gunned down in Richmond eight years ago as part of a bitter rivalry between two groups of Indo-Canadian men, may have been the target of a shooting on Lulu Island last Friday morning, Oct. 30.

Salaam Alkam (peace be upon you). Finally we completed our deployment training and have arrived in Afghanistan. Since the beginning of February, I have been one of the 130 reservists who conducted training in Edmonton and Shilo, Manitoba prior to September and October deployment to Afghanistan with Task Force 3-09 as part of the Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT).

Coquitlam Fire/Resuce. others also read... Fire officials believe a welder's torch accidentally started a fire which has caused thousands of dollars of damage at a Braid Street business.

Transportation Minister Shirley Bond. A government-ordered review of TransLink proposes giving area mayors greater powers in the authority's governance, coupled with direct representation from the provincial government.

New Westminster and Coquitlam fire departments were dispatched around 10 a.m. to a large industrial fire at the foot of Braid Street.

The Conservative government will announce the conditions of a judicial inquiry looking into why the sockeye salmon stocks off B.C.'s coast are declining at an alarming rate.

Fraser Health says it has now slashed most of its budget deficit. A new round of sweeping cuts by the Fraser Health Authority will eliminate 42 residential care beds at Peace Arch Hospital and close hospice, detox and psychiatric beds elsewhere in the region.

Abbotsford MLA Mike de Jong is the government's political point man as well as its top law enforcement officer.

Tom Prendergast. It's a major blow for the region and hopes for transportation improvements. Tom Prendergast is resigning as CEO of TransLink to return to New York.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, also known as the Burrard Band, is based in North Vancouver. A North Shore aboriginal band that has tried to make Lower Mainland cities pay development consulting fees is now starting to ask private land owners to pay up as well.

others also read... There’s high interest among voters in Monday’s New Westminster-Coquitlam by-election, evident from the turnout for the advance polls.

others also read... Voters in the New Westminster-Coquitlam riding may have started to notice election signs in their neighbourhood. Now it’s time to start thinking about voting day on Nov. 9 and getting prepared.

others also read... Voters in the federal riding of New Westminster-Coquitlam who wanted to see candidates in action had only two opportunities to do so—and the Tory candidate wasn’t slated to attend either event.

others also read... The New Westminster Public Library is managing to weather the storm of provincial financial cutbacks. But the chief librarian says many NWPL programs can’t stay afloat if there’s another wave of belt-tightening.

Leonard Hordyk is the CEO of InMotion Technology, a New Westminster company that has been recognized with an Export BC award for technology for its data hub that connects any number of input devices like laptops, tablets, and webcams for emergency services workers in the field.

others also read... Blankets, sleeping bags, heavy winter coats, hats, wool socks and shoes are in high demand by those living on New Westminster and Burnaby streets.

Ken Beck Lee landed on Canada’s shores with $1,400 in his pocket, an engineering degree from a Korean university that wasn’t recognized and very little English. Today, more than 30 years later, Lee’s is very much the successful immigrant story.

When a tree falls in an old growth forest, does anyone in Ottawa hear it? Rebecca Helps, the Green Party candidate for New Westminster-Coquitlam, thinks so. And the noise from poor environmental practices gets louder and louder in government corridors because Greens make sure those issues are being heard, said Helps, a Port Moody resident.

New Westminster-Coquitlam has been in the NDP’s column since 2006 and it is up to Fin Donnelly to make sure it doesn’t swing the other way on Nov. 9. The two-term Coquitlam councillor is making his pitch to voters playing up his environmental credentials and his party’s opposition to the HST.