Local News

Port Coquitlam council will get a chance to vote on an alignment option for the new Fremont Connector at next week's meeting.

The statistics about Canada's sedentary kids are worrying but local schools are working overtime to fill in the fitness gap. And one school finds morning the best time for relays, free play and exercise to music.

Pacific Coast Terminals, known for the huge, yellow piles of sulphur it ships from the Port Moody waterfront, started to handle canola oil on the weekend and the first load reportedly went smoothly into the tanks.

The Terry Fox Ravens suffered a heartbreaking defeat at the hands of the Yale secondary Lions during Saturday's boys AAAA B.C. High School Basketball Provincial Championships.

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.