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Game off: Graduating athletes feeling the strain of pandemic shutdowns

Game off: Graduating athletes feeling the strain of pandemic shutdowns

March 11, 2020, much of the world started to shut down because of a virulent new contagion known as COVID-19. Sports was one of the first casualties. A year later many young athletes are still on the sidelines, training but not playing competitive games. It's taking a toll.
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Environment Canada releases spring forecast for Metro Vancouver

Environment Canada releases spring forecast for Metro Vancouver

Are you ready for winter to be over?
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Battered but still working, iPhone returned to Port Coquitlam teen after eight-month ocean journey

Battered but still working, iPhone returned to Port Coquitlam teen after eight-month ocean journey

A cell phone lost in the Coquitlam River washed up on a Mayne Island beach last Saturday after an eight month journey; now it is being returned to the Port Coquitlam teen who lost the phone in a rafting incident last summer
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B.C. records 531 new COVID-19 cases, as variant strains become more prevalent

B.C. records 531 new COVID-19 cases, as variant strains become more prevalent

B.C. has now detected 627 cases of mutant strains of the COVID-19 virus.
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Riverview Hospital is renamed 'səmiq̓wəʔelə' as master planning starts on the Coquitlam site

Riverview Hospital is renamed 'səmiq̓wəʔelə' as master planning starts on the Coquitlam site

The provincial government has renamed the historical property “səmiq̓wəʔelə” to reflect the presence of the Kwikwetlem First Nation and the ties to its ancestral land.
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Are Metro Vancouver gas prices reaching a tipping point?

Are Metro Vancouver gas prices reaching a tipping point?

UBC researcher says gas prices in the Lower Mainland may soon be reaching a tipping point as electric vehicles race towards price parity
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Off-leash dog owners 'monopolize public space,' and should be fined, Port Coquitlam told

Off-leash dog owners 'monopolize public space,' and should be fined, Port Coquitlam told

Conflict between dog owners and other park users an issue as Port Coquitlam parks become more busy due to density; handing out more tickets, more patrols and even creating more dog parks discussed as some possible solutions
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Port Coquitlam author reveals sister's hostage-taking, death at B.C. jail

Port Coquitlam author reveals sister's hostage-taking, death at B.C. jail

Port Coquitlam resident Margaret Franz is out with her first book about her sister, Mary Steinhauser, a psychiatric nurse who died during a hostage-taking in New Westminster, in 1975.
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Premier John Horgan has the highest approval rating in Canada, again

Premier John Horgan has the highest approval rating in Canada, again

More British Columbians approve of the job Horgan is doing this quarter over last
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Opinion: Awful people are actually poisoning animals they don't like with 'predacides'

Opinion: Awful people are actually poisoning animals they don't like with 'predacides'

BC SPCA rallying people to sign petition
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