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A zoning bylaw change approved at Tuesday's Port Moody council meeting has closed a loophole that allowed some residents to build four-storey homes. The old bylaw limited the height of a home to 10.5 m or three storeys (not including the basement).

A proposal that would see a large commercial development built at Oxford Street and Lougheed Highway in Port Coquitlam on the site of a former car dealership needs more work before receiving council's approval.

Cuts to red tape will help movie theatres operators after the B.C. government moved to update the Motion Picture Act.

Port Coquitlam councillors will reconsider an amendment to its firearms prohibition bylaw that would have banned crossbows and bow and arrows from being fired within the municipality. Coun.

A rash of copper wire and pipe thefts in the Coquitlam area over the last couple of months has police calling on the public to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity.

The Coquitlam River is back on the list of the province's most endangered rivers.

Child-killer Allan Schoenborn is requesting that the B.C. Review Board postpone his annual hearing, which was expected to take place next month, until some time in the fall.

Community centres and daycares across the Tri-Cities are open with activities to keep children busy - and out of the wind, rain and snow - as schools closed for a two-week spring break beginning Monday.

The trial of Blake Salemink, the young man accused of setting a house fire that killed his mother, begins this week in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. The fire tore through a home in the 2500-block of Burian Drive in Coquitlam at about 5 a.m.

Port Moody firefighters took to the Twitter-verse over the weekend to complain about understaffing at Fire Hall #2 in Glenayre.