Local News

Local mounties are warning Coquitlam residents to remove bear attractants - especially bird seed - after an encounter in a yard off Hickey Drive Wednesday night.

The fate of a new plan for Coquitlam's oldest neighbourhood will be decided by the residents and area business people, the mayor said last week.

Port Moody councillors are not out to "recklessly" destroy the city with a community plan that gives developers carte blanche to do what they want, the city's mayor told attendees at a town hall meeting Wednesday evening.

Two hikers unexpectedly spent the night on the Swan Falls trail at Buntzen Lake after heavy snow covered their path and caused them to lose their way.

George Assaf considers himself more of a science geek than a sensitive guy but even he understood why his wife cried when she watched the spectacle of the coho returning to Mossom Creek one autumn.

Plans to build a state-of-the-art hatchery and education facility on the footprint of the destroyed Mossom Creek Hatchery are taking shape. With a cost initially pegged at $1.

A community advisor for Fisheries and Oceans Canada is supporting efforts to rebuild Port Moody's Mossom Creek Hatchery, which was felled by fire in December.

Two young men are facing charges for allegedly posing as members of the Alzheimer Society of B.C. to solicit fraudulent door-to-door donations.

The company that now picks up curbside trash, green waste and recyclables in Coquitlam will continue with recycling collection after July 1.

More charges have been laid against a retired school teacher who pled guilty last year to sexually exploiting two young people in Coquitlam during incidents that date back more than a decade.