Local News

Here's a test: What are the common names for highways 7, 7A and 7B? If you don't know the answers, you're in good company.

A homeless advocate is welcoming a new initiative that will provide severely mentally ill people with psychiatric care, support and housing so they stop cycling through emergency rooms and ending up on the street.

A key municipal service will continue to be done by outside hands in Coquitlam. On Monday, staff said the city will ask for private firms to bid on a new garbage and recycling contract that begins July 1, 2014.

The Coroners Service of BC will be holding an inquest into the death last spring of Roland Joseph Bourque, who was an inmate at the North Fraser Pre-Trial Centre. Bourque, 69, died on the morning of April 3, 2012 at the Port Coquitlam jail.

The Cornerstone Home Team is once again looking for nominations of families in need of a helping hand on some much-needed home renovations.

With the phase-out of the penny beginning Monday, Canadian cashiers and consumers will have to do some old-school arithmetic to calculate the bill.

An elderly woman walking along Austin Avenue in Coquitlam on Saturday morning was hit and killed by an out-of-control vehicle.

One lane of the Lougheed Highway between the Cape Horn Interchange and the Coleman Avenue on-ramp will be closed for two months as part of the construction work taking place for the Port Mann/Highway1 Improvement Project.

Need help with light housework or lawn maintenance, grocery shopping or even transportation? Some new services for seniors could soon be available this spring to help them live independently for longer.

After months of preparatory work, construction is set to begin on the $1.4 billion Burnaby to Coquitlam Evergreen Line this month and the executive project director says it will start in Port Moody.