Local News

Port Coquitlam MLA Mike Farnworth is out of the BC NDP leadership race. On Tuesday, the opposition's finance critic cut short his second bid for his party's top job and swung his support behind Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan.

Plans to subdivide a small strip of land at a Coquitlam school so it can be sold for housing will go to public hearing later this month.

Several picturesque cottages on the edge of Belcarra Regional Park are slated for demolition to make way for an expanded picnic area and trail.

Coquitlam council has ruled out two possible routes for the next power transmission line from the city to Vancouver.

Police are on the hunt for a man they believe is responsible for two bank robberies in Coquitlam and a third in Vancouver that occurred in late March.

The next round of public discussion on School District 43's budget and how to make up an estimated $13.4 million shortfall will take place tomorrow and a number of groups are planning to present. An open house will take place from 6-8 p.m.

Sidewalk closures and detours will be implemented next to active construction sites along Pinetree Way between the Coquitlam transit exchange and Town Centre Boulevard as part of Evergreen Line construction.

It took more than a year for Elwin Mowry to find a family physician after his doctor retired and the Coquitlam man has one word for anyone in the same boat: persevere.

Three big NDP Tri-Cities names are not going local when it comes to the provincial party's leadership race.

Several crime hot spots have been identified in the Tri-Cities as part of the RCMP's most recent CompStat alert released on Thursday.