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Coquitlam's mayor apologized to a long-time business owner and her family this week after they said they were forced to jump through numerous bureaucratic hoops to reconstruct their building.

Coquitlam voters will see one less name on the ballot for this month's byelection. Andy Lacuna dropped out of the civic race before the nomination period closed last Friday at 4 p.m., a city spokesperson said.

The search for a missing grandfather has shifted to southwest Coquitlam after exhaustive searches in all other areas of the Tri-Cities turned up no sign of Shin Noh.

The managing director of the Hope for Freedom Society is optimistic a temporary shelter will be available for homeless people by Nov. 1, a month after its original Oct. 1 start date.

A child received minor injuries after he was hit by a car Monday morning in Port Moody while en route to school. Local police were called to the 600-block of Ioco Road at about 8:20 a.m.

B.C.'s lucrative blueberry industry will benefit from research by a Douglas College biologist, thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

The trial of a man accused of killing two women in a hit-and-run crash in February, 2011 opened Monday with a recording of a frantic 911 call made by a friend of one of the victims.

Port Coquitlam is looking for items to put in a time capsule, set to be buried next month as part of the city's centennial celebrations.

With heavy rains on the way for the Coquitlam area, the son of a missing 64-year-old Korean man is still hopeful volunteers will find his dad.

The brother of Terry Fox ran with more than 130 students at a Coquitlam elementary school yesterday for the Terry Fox National School Run Day. Fred Fox was at R.C.