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The city of Port Coquitlam's 100th birthday will be the focus of this year's May Day celebration, which will run between May 3 and 12.

School District 43 will be expanding the scope of its annual financial audit to ensure procedures are in place to avoid problems with budgeting in the future.

Coquitlam RCMP were called to the banks of the Pitt River, near Argue Street, at about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a body in the river. Cpl.

An advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families says students' education will be shortchanged and their future prospects limited if School District 43 eliminates the position of director of student services and cuts tea

Coquitlam RCMP are seeking the public's help in locating a man who went missing from the Cottonwood Lodge on the Riverview Hospital grounds. Michael Louis Andrews, 55, was last seen by staff members at 11 p.m. on Tuesday night.

A group promoting French language programs in School District 43 says the elimination of a co-ordinator and teaching positions will cut the heart out of French language instruction that has a long history in the region.

A strip of land in Coquitlam's Town Centre Park will be dug up next month to make way for green thumbs.

Two very different areas in Coquitlam - one a dedicated forest park, the other a new residential community where trees are being cut down - will soon have something in common: better signs to tell the public what they're all about.

A retired teacher from Port Coquitlam high school, who was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame two weeks ago, died last Friday.

Staff burnout, chronic underfunding and parents making up the difference in spending cuts with fundraising are some of the concerns of District Parent Advisory Council chair Heidi Hass Gable has about plans to cut $12.