Local News

Get ready to bust out your wallet when visiting Rocky Point Park - unless you're a Port Moody resident.

A coroner's inquest into the death of killer Darcy Richard Bertrand at the Mission Institution in 2012 has recommended better mental health services for inmates and mandatory suicide-prevention training for prison staff.

A pair of cheque scam incidents this week has Coquitlam RCMP asking for anyone else who has been defrauded to contact them. The scams happened on July 8, one near North Road in Coquitlam and the other near Shaughnessy Street in Port Coquitlam.

Coquitlam RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating a man who went missing from the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital at Colony Farm Wednesday. Jeffrey Edward Stuart, 25, is now wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large.

Tickets are still on sale for the Sunday, July 13 auction and dinner to raise funds to rebuild the Mossom Creek Hatchery, which burned down in December.

A tumultuous school year ended quietly Tuesday as School District 43 conducted its final meeting of the school year in a nearly empty boardroom because of the ongoing labour dispute and a spate of summer weather.

Belcarra wants assurances that recreational boaters won't be at risk from increased tanker traffic if the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker facility expansion goes ahead.

The replacement of the Mundy Park field house is necessary but shouldn't cost millions.

A deacon from St. Laurence Anglican Church says he is concerned about a lack of affordable housing in Coquitlam and wants the city to create incentives for developers to build more rental units.

School District 43 is seeking expert advice as it wades into the world of real estate sales and land development for four surplus school properties.