Local News

Don't pull out the cell phone - or any other mobile device - while driving or stopped at a red light. This month, as part of a provincial campaign, Coquitlam RCMP and Port Moody Police are ramping up enforcement to crack down on distracted drivers.

An initiative to charge parents and caregivers $10 a day - or less - for childcare is gaining steam in B.C.

Coquitlam will join Port Moody and Belcarra to apply as an intervenor in the hearings for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. On Monday, city council unanimously endorsed a motion by Coun.

The dangers of the job remain the same but going to work will soon be a lot more enjoyable for Port Moody firefighters.

After weeks of waiting for permits, the white-throated swift that has been in the care of the Wildlife Rescue Association in Burnaby since early November will be leaving for California this morning, Tuesday, Feb. 4.

The family of missing grandfather Shin Ik Noh is posting a $10,000 reward for information leading to the finding of Noh alive. Noh, 65, went missing Sept. 18, 2013. He is Korean, about 5'6" tall and 150 pounds and has Alzheimer's Disease.

A couple of seasoned but youthful hikers are home safe and sound after they got lost in the forest on Eagle Mountain and had to be rescued by Coquitlam Search and Rescue Sunday night.

ig Brothers of Greater Vancouver is putting out an emergency plea for men to come forward and help out with the Game On program that provides physical activity, communication skills and healthy life styles experiences for boys.

A temporary shelter operating in a Port Coquitlam church on Kingsway Avenue this month saw as many as two dozen homeless people on some nights without generating any community complaints.

Canada Post has announced its strategy to switch from home delivery to community mail boxes in response to concerns.