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Vancouver quintet, The Belle Game , released their debut album, Ritual Tradition Habit today on Boompa - you can stream the record in its entirety via Under The Radar.

By Dale Bass - Kamloops This Week Published: May 16, 2013 4:00 PM Updated: May 16, 2013 4:16 PM Gone also are the warden's coat stand and cap, uniforms, files - including Billy Miner's arrest and escape documentation - and more than 25,000 iPhone-sized glass plates with photographs of inmates who once lived behind the bars of the B.C. Penitentiary.

It's the first thing visitors to Arnica Artist Run Centre see, a square painting measuring roughly half a metre and crudely framed with drill holes visible where it was once bolted to a prison wall.

By Chris Bryan - New Westminster News Leader Published: May 17, 2013 12:00 PM Updated: May 17, 2013 3:21 PM It's foreboding to walk under, and it's probably bad for our health, trapping noxious fumes from passing trucks as it amplifies the engines' roar.

By Grant Granger - New Westminster News Leader Published: May 16, 2013 11:00 AM Updated: May 16, 2013 11:27 AM If New Westminster board of education chair Michael Ewen harboured any hopes a NDP victory in Tuesday's provincial election would have relieved some of the district's deficit pressure he wasn't talking about them Wednesday.

By Grant Granger - New Westminster News Leader Published: May 15, 2013 3:00 PM Updated: May 15, 2013 3:32 PM The one-lane Bailey bridge connecting New Westminster's Braid Industrial Park to Coquitlam's United Boulevard was closed for almost two weeks in February after it was discovered during a structural assessment that two of its trusses had been ... (more)

By Grant Granger - New Westminster News Leader Published: May 15, 2013 3:00 PM Updated: May 16, 2013 11:28 AM The mayor dropped the tidbit during a state-of-the-city address to a chamber of commerce luncheon at the Columbia Theatre on Wednesday.

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Unlike the authentic polymer $100-bill, pictured, a hologram security feature on the counterfeit version is missing the "100" on the transparent area.

Douglas Channel, the proposed shipping route for oil tanker ships in the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, is pictured just south of Kitimat, B.C. The unexpected victory by Christy Clark and her Liberal Party in B.C.'s provincial election has renewed the divisive debate over pipelines.

Canadians are being warned to keep an eye out for counterfeit $100 polymer bills after seven imitation notes were discovered late last month in British Columbia.

Early morning is a good time to spot migrating birds, when they make landfall to rest and regain their energy.

With the polls all pointing to an NDP victory in the lead up to Tuesday's B.C. election, the 11th hour upset comes as a big blow to not just B.C. New Democrats, but also the federal party that for months waxed poetic about the likelihood of another orange crush on Canada's west coast.

Counterfeiters have already started churning out fake versions of Canada's new $100 polymer bills, but police say it's easy to spot the difference in the transparent strip.

According to Samara, a non-partisan think-tank, Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian is the most talkative MP in the House of Commons.

By Grant Granger - New Westminster News Leader Published: May 14, 2013 10:00 AM Updated: May 14, 2013 10:36 AM Nicolas D. Robitaille couldn't help but see the Front Street parkade from the SkyTrain bridge as he commuted back and forth from Vancouver to Surrey for his graphic design job.

New Westminster is looking for people in the community who can give a group of visiting international artists a place to stay.

When the Big One finally hits coastal B.C., while Vancouver's earthquake-proof skyline and the region's many wood homes will come out largely unscathed, the province's iconic Parliament Buildings will most likely topple.

Sian Simmonds, 19, of Surrey was murdered in 1993. A jury decided Friday that Brian Gerald West, one of the three men who were involved in her murder, can apply for early parole next year.

About 450 students and teachers from Abbotsford's Colleen and Gordie Howe Middle School took part in a mini Run For Water event this afternoon .