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The Evergreen Line project team will hold another community information meeting next week - this time in Port Moody - for people concerned about sinkholes and other construction-related issues. A similar meeting was held Jan.

A lack of schools on Burke Mountain has some area parents angry and calling on the city to slow development in northeast Coquitlam until amenities are built.

A well-attended town hall meeting on the proposed Fremont connector sent this message to Port Coquitlam city council: Keep it away from Cedar Drive.

The archives at Coquitlam city hall got a little more crowded in 2014. Hundreds of documents, ledger books, correspondence and old photographs were donated last year, with one of the largest acquisitions coming from the Coquitlam Heritage Society.

Parents are still encouraged to drop off their students at school this morning despite a power outage that has shut off the lights and other utilities at several schools and homes in Port Coquitlam. BC Hydro expects the power to be back on by 11 a.m.

Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore knows he has his work cut out for him to convince Tri-City voters and others in Metro Vancouver to vote in favour the so-called congestion improvement tax to pay for $7.5 billion in transportation work.

Drivers crossing the Port Mann bridge to get to Coquitlam will have their own lane starting this weekend. The new separated lane is for commuters heading west along Highway 1 and using Exit 44, the turnoff for the Tri-Cities.

Coquitlam RCMP are asking for the public's help after an attempted convenience store robbery earlier this month. According to police, on the afternoon of Jan. 5, a young woman walked into the store in the 2700-block of Lougheed Hwy.

On a cold, gray December day, Craig Orr takes the trail from the Colony Farm parking lot at the end of the road along the Coquitlam River, crosses the pedestrian bridge and aims for an indistinct green metal box in the distance.

A strip mall on Port Coquitlam's northside is expected to get a retrofit soon. Last week, the city's smart growth committee approved a development permit for improvements at the Prairie Avenue and Coast Meridian Road mall.