Local News

Traffic changes are coming to the North Road and Cottonwood Avenue area as part of Evergreen Line construction. Starting this week, crews will be removing and installing curbs to establish traffic pattern changes for Cottonwood.

With hot and sunny weather back this week, police will be stepping up enforcement at local beaches. Coquitlam RCMP stepped up its weekend patrols at Buntzen Lake about two weeks ago, said Cpl. Jamie Chung.

With the backing of a community petition and letters of support from dozens of residents, Coquitlam Public Library (CPL) is launching an appeal to raise money for a book bus to replace one badly damaged by fire in May.

A new Ipsos Reid survey shows Port Moody residents have a love-hate relationship with growth and development in the city.

An initiative to get young women more interested and involved in local politics has made Coquitlam its first stop on a campaign to promote change at B.C. city halls.

One week into Coquitlam's new garbage collection service and it's "so far, so good" according to city staff.

Plans to re-designate a 35-acre piece of land in Burke Mountain that was to be the site of a middle school/community centre and single-family homes to higher-density townhouses is being put on hold so that further public consultation can take place.

A proposal to twin a natural gas pipeline between Squamish and the Coquitlam watershed is expected to receive an environmental assessment certificate by October and could be operational by 2015, according to a FortisBC spokesperson.

Coquitlam RCMP are asking for the public's help in identifying a pair of suspects in two purse-snatching incidents.

Thousands of Tri-City students looking to get a jump on their schooling this summer will have to find other ways after School District 43 cancelled summer school programs because of the public school teachers' labour dispute.