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Two School District 43 high school principals are moving to the board office to fill vacancies in administration.

A Coquitlam man was given a conditional sentence of two years less a day and ordered to pay a victim restitution charge of $301,400 after being found guilty of fraud over $5,000. Amir Beiklik was arrested in March 2012 by the B.C.

Frustrated Burke Mountain parents will have to wait a few more months before learning what's happening with planned new schools in their neighbourhood. But the school district promises area residents will get some news this spring.

Concerns about the security of mail delivered to Tri-City community mail boxes have been raised in recent weeks after mail was stolen from a box on Westwood Plateau and from two newer-style mail boxes in Belcarra and on Burke Mountain.

The Golden Ears bridge was shut down on Wednesday after a dangerous driving incident that caused several minor crashes but no injuries. Just after 2 p.m. Maple Ridge RCMP traffic officers tried to wave over the driver of a Ford pickup for speeding.

The B.C. Review Board hearing for child killer Allan Schoenborn has been scheduled to resume Feb. 26. Schoenborn's annual hearing, at which he asked for escorted day passes from the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, began on Feb.

A report into the health and well-being of youths living in the Fraser North region, which includes the Tri-Cities, suggests the majority of teens have positive mental health and are connected with family, school and community.

Coquitlam RCMP are hoping the public can help them identify a suspect who allegedly tossed something similar to a Molotov cocktail inside a business at 2020 Oxford Connector in Port Coquitlam late last year. According to police at about 6:45 p.m.

A sizeable hike in this year's budget to run the Terry Fox Library has Port Coquitlam council thinking about whether the city should check out of the Fraser Valley Regional Library (FVRL) system. This week, the city's FVRL board rep, Coun.

A delay in the opening of the Evergreen Line will not affect 125th birthday programming and celebrations the city of Coquitlam had scheduled for the summer of 2016.