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Speaking to a business crowd yesterday in Coquitlam, Premier Christy Clark delivered a bottom-line message, vowing to balance the provincial budget in 2013.

The idea of spreading good feelings through candy or kind words has spread from a Port Coquitlam high school to one in Coquitlam, and the students behind the idea would like to see it go further.

Parking rules for new Coquitlam triplexes and fourplexes were tested this week as city council debated a bid for a strata development.

From the city of Coquitlam website about a building located by the Executive Plaza Hotel: "Early this afternoon, Coquitlam Fire/Rescue responded to a structural fire at 401 Westview St.. No serious injuries were reported.

Aleksandr Plehanov 's future with School District 43 is uncertain despite his acquittal today of all charges by a provincial court judge. Judge David St.

Former Coquitlam substitute teacher Aleksandr Plehanov has been acquitted on charges he sexually assaulted a handful of students in schools throughout the district. Judge David St.

Aleksandr Plehanov' s teaching career remains in limbo pending further review by the new Teacher Regulation Branch, according to a Ministry of Education spokesman.

A second Coquitlam city councillor will vie for a provincial seat in next year's election. On Monday, Coun.

Mounties are asking for the public's help in tracking down a man who walked away from the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital at Colony Farm in Coquitlam.

Pick up any newspaper today and no one could blame you if you got a little worried about the state of the economy or the fear of a pending market correction in Canadian real estate. What if Greece defaults? What about the Fiscal Cliff in the U.S.