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The days until Christmas are counting down but there is still time to get out this weekend and catch the holiday light displays in the Tri-Cities. Here is a helpful map you can use when traveling around town.

People pay bills online and shop online, and soon, Tri-City parents will be able to pay school fees online, too.

School District 43 is already almost halfway towards meeting Metro Vancouver's ban on food waste in garbage and will be 100% ready when school resumes after the winter break.

Noting one in five Canadians will be diagnosed with a mental illness during their lifetime - that's seven million people - provincial Health Minister Terry Lake announced this week plans to open 40 beds at Coquitlam's Riverview Hospital for people wi

Merry Christmas, Coquitlam council. To match the contract for unionized city employees, Mayor Richard Stewart and councillors will each automatically get a 2% bump in their salaries in the new year. That means, effective Jan.

A Coquitlam man accused of assaulting a Heritage Mountain homeowner and then carjacking a woman's vehicle to evade police on Tuesday has now been charged with sexual assault and break and enter.

The driver involved in a crash on Como Lake Avenue on Dec. 8 that killed a pedestrian has been charged with refusing to provide a breath sample.

More than $260,000 in grants have been awarded to non-profits and community groups thanks to the 2014 Spirit of Coquitlam grant program, which is funded by the city's share of gaming income at the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver.

An abrupt end to the school year in June because of teachers' job action and a series of rotating strikes in the weeks previous enabled the district to save money and put a small down payment on its debt.

Bad weather has delayed construction of Coquitlam's new Poirier Dry Floor Facility, a $3.9-million project that was expected to be completed earlier this month.