Local News

With more and more vehicles turning up each year at the ever-expanding annual Port Coquitlam Car Show, its getting harder for event organizers to top themselves.

The westbound lanes of the Mary Hill Bypass were closed Friday morning after an RV fire broke out and quickly spread to the nearby brush moving toward Citadel Drive.

Thousands of transit commuters have applied to be the first to try out the Compass card, which will be in use across the Lower Mainland's transit system next year.

The Coquitlam RCMP are warning people to be careful after three cellphone robberies occurred during a 90-minute period last week. The first incident took place around 10:30 p.m. Aug.

A Port Coquitlam man Mounties describe as a prolific offender who was out of jail for less than a month is back before the courts. Christopher Fogale was released from custody on July 9 after serving time for a theft conviction he received in May.

A Langley resident with no background in mining is asking the provincial government to allow him to do some drilling on 111 acres of Crown land in northeast Coquitlam near Minnekhada Regional Park.

A new task group formed to look at the state of Coquitlam's largest - and most popular - park will include a range of representatives with competing interests.

Tri-City residents may be among the patients treated by a Burnaby man believed to be practising dentistry illegally, according to Fraser Health .

The Coquitlam RCMP is seeking the public's assistance in locating a man who allegedly tried to use a stolen credit card while making a purchase at a store on Coast Meridian Road last month.

Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart is calling on Canada Post to do a better job of securing community mailboxes after a major break-in over the weekend on Westwood Plateau.