Local News

Two people are dead and the region's homicide investigators have been brought in following a house fire early Tuesday in the 1100-block of Cottonwood Avenue in Coquitlam. The blaze broke out shortly after midnight in a home near Como Lake Park.

The city of Port Coquitlam is confident in CP Rail's management of dangerous goods rolling through the city and is in regular contact with the rail company on issues, a spokesperson says.

The race is now on to fill the Coquitlam council seats left vacant this spring by two civic politicians elected to provincial jobs.

Developers, builders and contractors in Coquitlam could soon face stiff fines if large amounts of mud, silt and debris flow from their construction sites.

A Port Moody family has been chosen by the HomeTeam for a home renovation to make their townhouse more livable. Kathleen Black and her family have been selected by Cornerstone Seventh Day Adventist Church for a project planned planned for Sept.

The Tri-Cities could be without a homeless shelter this winter after Port Coquitlam council rejected an initiative that would have seen a temporary facility operate at a church on Kingsway Avenue.

A complaint has been launched against the Port Moody Police Department after a video was posted on YouTube of an officer throwing a man to the pavement during an arrest on the weekend.

Beverly Welsh, past president of the Fraser Pacific Rose Society, stops to smell the roses in the Centennial Rose Garden at Coquitlam's Dogwood Pavilion. On Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Port Moody police are blaming poorly stored industrial fuels for a blast that tore the roof off a van and sent a woman to hospital last Friday afternoon. The incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. at the McDonalds on St.

Prized possessions tucked away for 33 years by the family of Port Coquitlam hometown hero Terry Fox will be part of a new exhibit at Canada's largest museum of history.