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What is the right number for B.C.'s minimum wage? That's the question the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce is asking its 1,000 members in an email letter to them this week. With the minimum wage set to go up to $10.45 per hour from $10.

A twenty cent an hour increase to the minimum wage won't buy a cup of coffee or a phone call and it's not enough to get low-income earners out of poverty, says the province's NDP leader. But John Horgan isn't ready to commit to a dollar figure for B.

A home in the 1900-block of Grant Avenue in Port Coquitlam was damaged when a shed at the back of the property caught fire Wednesday afternoon.

Geotechnical soil exploration will be conducted around Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam next week as the city works to determine the feasibility of constructing the facility.

Port Moody residents can weigh in on the boats anchored in Burrard Inlet at a town hall meeting later this spring.

The Port Moody Legion Branch 119 is moving forward with its long-awaited redevelopment, including plans for a five-storey mixed-use site, complete with a new Legion.

When Terry Fox recovered from the surgery that amputated his right leg, he already had the kernel of a plan forming: to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

Port Moody is pressing pause on Metro Vancouver's plans to demolish the Belcarra South cottages and may afford the beachfront structures even greater protection by deeming them to be a Heritage Conservation Area, much like the old Ioco townsite.

An overheated cooking device being used in the garage of a Riverbend Drive home in Coquitlam is being blamed for starting a fire that sent two people to hospital Monday night.

It's almost finished and the fish are coming. That's the promise as one of the last major structural items on the Mossom Creek Hatchery rebuild was completed and the new hatchery equipment installed.