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Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart says the city of Coquitlam supports the establishment of a temporary shelter rotating through three churches in the city.

A group educating children against child sexual exploitation is calling on parents to choose their kids' costumes carefully this Halloween.

A Port Moody senior was bilked out of $7,600 after falling prey to a scheme colloquially called a grandparent scam. The 79-year-old received a phone call in September from a woman who identified herself as the elderly woman's favourite granddaughter.

A patio feature that's popular in California is starting to burn bright in B.C., thanks in part to a manufacturer from Anmore.

Coquitlam's mayor apologized to a long-time business owner and her family this week after they said they were forced to jump through numerous bureaucratic hoops to reconstruct their building.

Coquitlam voters will see one less name on the ballot for this month's byelection. Andy Lacuna dropped out of the civic race before the nomination period closed last Friday at 4 p.m., a city spokesperson said.

The search for a missing grandfather has shifted to southwest Coquitlam after exhaustive searches in all other areas of the Tri-Cities turned up no sign of Shin Noh.

The managing director of the Hope for Freedom Society is optimistic a temporary shelter will be available for homeless people by Nov. 1, a month after its original Oct. 1 start date.

A child received minor injuries after he was hit by a car Monday morning in Port Moody while en route to school. Local police were called to the 600-block of Ioco Road at about 8:20 a.m.

B.C.'s lucrative blueberry industry will benefit from research by a Douglas College biologist, thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).