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Don't even think of leaving your green bin out overnight, especially unlocked, or you could face warnings and hefty fines.

It's time to put away garbage, birdseed, compost, pet food and to keep fruit from trees off the ground. Bears emerging from hibernation are looking for food and helping themselves to anything they can find.

Coquitlam homeowners will pay 2.71% more in property tax this year after council voted unanimously Monday to adopt its five-year financial plan. The average Coquitlam homeowner will pay $2,982 this year, approximately $73 more than last year.

Electric vehicle owners have a new place to charge up their cars in Coquitlam. The city has installed two charging stations at city hall for both public and staff use.

Coquitlam RCMP are hoping to identify a man wanted in connection with an alleged assault at a Port Coquitlam bar after the Super Bowl last month. According to police, on Feb. 1 a 46-year-old man and his girlfriend were at the Cat and Fiddle Pub.

Kimberley Doerksen is too young to have been around for the Marathon of Hope but, growing up and learning Terry Fox's story in school, she remembers a sense of awe at what he'd accomplished and dreaming that, one day, maybe she would do the same.

The Mossom Creek Education Centre is now up and running after thousands of chum fry were placed into rearing tanks on Wednesday.

Irwin Richard Franz pleaded guilty Wednesday in B.C. Provincial Court in Port Coquitlam in the September 2013 hit-and-run death of 16-year-old Annie Leung.

Two former Coquitlam city councillors who are now Tri-City MLAs will make up part of a special committee examining regulations limiting how much municipal election candidates can spend on their campaigns.

Five people were taken to hospital with smoke-inhalation issues after a fire destroyed one home and scorched two others in the Dawes Hill Road area early Wednesday morning.