Local News

The city of Coquitlam will soon know more about the health of the Coquitlam River after conducting water quality tests throughout the length of the river.

The Coquitlam RCMP are asking for the public's assistance in locating Kurt Derksen, a 58-year-old patient at Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital that went missing Wednesday afternoon.

Port Coquitlam's answer to bullying will take place this Sunday, starting at 1 p.m. at the Port Coquitlam Recreation Centre, with registration beginning at 11 a.m.

Students at Aspenwood elementary school were evacuated this morning (Thursday) and classes were cancelled as a precautionary measure while the Port Moody fire department tested air quality.

Port Moody council is considering whether to expand the city's food cart program next summer at Rocky Point Park.

A thief who broke into a garage in Port Coquitlam's Citadel Heights on the weekend nabbed more than just tools. The crook also took an urn containing ashes of the victim's relative.

A coroner's inquest jury has made five recommendations after a Riverview Hospital patient was found dead on the grounds several days after she went missing.

Evergreen Line crews will be moving a sewer line located under the CP Rail tracks starting tonight. The work is centred on Clarke Street, near the foot of Queens Street, and will run from 6 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday.

This is an updated version of an earlier story posted about Happy Tuesday.

Coquitlam Sylvan Learning, together with 10 other Sylvan locations in British Columbia, has raised $10,000 to support Free the Children's Brick by Brick: Schoolbuilding Campaign.