Early morning break and enter at Blur Optical on Plains Road East.

By Staff January 27, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Blur Optical at 1025 Plains Rd East was robbed yesterday. At approximately 12:20am, on Monday January 26, 2015, […]

Red - a critcally acclaimed dramatic production begins a run at the Performing Arts Centre - Thursday.

By Pepper Parr January 27, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The boys are at it again. Mischa and Mel Aravena are part of a crew that will […]

Clearing the snow is progressing the way it is supposed to during second major snow storm this season.

By Staff January 26, 2105 BURLINGTON, ON That is snow out there – and when that happens a well-oiled snow removal team swing into action […]

Oakville Mayor returned as chair of the Police Services Board for a second term.

By Staff January 26, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON At the January 22, 2015 Police Services Board, Oakville Mayor Rob Burton was elected as Chairman for a […]

Three men create the economic foundation for Hamilton and surrounding communities - and build castles to live in.

By Mark Gillies January 27, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON. Part 1 of a 2 part feature Sir Allan Napier MacNab was a wealthy lawyer, a Prime […]

Mayor thinks a pilot private property tree bylaw restricted to Roseland community an

By Pepper Parr January 26, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON.   There just might be an opportunity for pilot private tree bylaw in the Roseland community. Last […]

Region wants the province to get moving on upgrading local court infrastructure shortfalls

By Staff January 26, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Halton Region’s rapidly growing population has stretched the current capacity of local court resources and facility infrastructure causing […]

Gazette columnist chooses fishing in New Zealand over shoveling snow in Ontario.

By Pepper Parr January 26, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON. Ray Rivers, our political columnist is in New Zealand – spending as much time as he can […]

AGB staff favour the Long Kiss video installation. Artist Riley hopes for Valentine's Day turnout.

By Staff January 24, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON. It was a different piece of “installation art”. Jim Riley came up with this idea of filming people […]

Thirty three flood victims have cheques that are "in the mail" Three of the 310 claims received were turned down.

By Pepper Parr January 23, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The wheels do at times move very slowly but they are at least moving a little. The […]

Under Chief Smith's watch, peace and tranquility was the way everyone liked it, and he kept it that way.

By Mark Gillies January 22, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Part 3 of a 4 part feature Burlington in transition Under Chief Smith’s watch, Burlington continued to […]

Shoplifters are keeping police busy; arrests at Burlington Mall and Shoppers Drug Mart

By Staff January 23, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It used to be that it was either a drug bust or a case of someone doing things […]

Day care workers to get an additional $1 an hour - more next year.

By Staff January 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Premier Kathleen Wynne announced today that the Ontario government is increasing wages for early childhood educators and front-line […]

Something to think about for Family Day in February.

By Staff January 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Adults understand the relationship between nature and the environment – well some of them do. But how do […]

Call has gone out for possible mural locations around the city. What could large scale murals do for Burlington?

By Staff January 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON. The city wants to make the streets look nicer. A number of years ago they installed really nice […]

City looking for photographs to animate the new web site

By Staff January 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The city web site is getting a serious make over. Council was given a quick preview of what […]

Public was outraged - Council wasn't sure it would have any impact on final decision

By Pepper Parr January 20th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It was pretty clear after less than five minutes that the four people short of capacity in […]

Lee Smith struggles to deal with the death of his wife and the economic depression the country was in.

By Mark Gillies January 20, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON. Part two of a four part feature. Chief Lee Joseph Smith, (1885 – 1973). Lee and Alma […]

Rivers points out to the Prime Minister that it is really about the economy - not just the Alberta oil sands.

By Ray Rivers January 20, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON For a long while now I have criticized the federal government’s approach to managing the economy – […]

Mayor and Council Remuneration for 2015 – they will be getting a slight increase

By Staff January 19, 2105 BURLINGTON, ON What are they worth? Are they worth what we are paying them? Would any of them earn the […]