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A former radio reporter and UBC graduate student will be up against Conservative MP James Moore in the fall federal election.

More than a hundred people are homeless after a fire tore through a Coquitlam apartment building Monday and the city expects the residents could be displaced for several months.

Port Moody has declared its residents have the right to live in a healthy environment, joining several other cities in the Blue Dot campaign to enshrine that right in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

They came, they sang and they knitted in protest against pipeline expansion they feel is dangerous to the environment. Jane Thomsing, centre, shows Kim Fink-Jensen and Carrie Graham how to knit during a knit-in in protest against pipelines Friday.

The opening of the long-awaited Evergreen Line has been postponed by several months, with the system now expected to be running in the fall of 2016 instead of the summer.

Coquitlam RCMP are seeking information about a theft of items from a 2012 black Ford minibus limousine that was parked in the London Drugs parking lot at Coquitlam Centre last Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 10).

Finding autism service providers can be one of the most stressful jobs of a parent whose child has been diagnosed with the neurological disability but a newly formed organization headed by a Coquitlam mom plans to offer some critical help.

Coquitlam firefighters moved to Burke Mountain this week to offer quicker response times to the ever-growing area. On Thursday, 16 members of Engine Company 4 relocated to the new fire hall at 3501 David Ave.

A development firm wanting to build a residential complex in Coquitlam was given another chance last week. City council unanimously voted to allow the bid by Epix Development Ltd., in partnership with The Circadian Group, to proceed.

The deadline to have your say on the proposed Fremont connector in Port Coquitlam is tomorrow (Friday) at 4:30 p.m.