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The Coquitlam RCMP may have identified the person responsible for phoning in a bomb threat at Gleneagle secondary last week. Cpl.

A new park in a developing neighbourhood on Burke Mountain will be built for more than $1 million.

The good news: Coquitlam property taxes will go up less than they did last year. The bad news: Coquitlam property taxes are still going up. On Monday, city council voted to hike property taxes by an average of 2.42% for all classes.

Operation Red Nose volunteers were busy on the first weekend of the festive season, driving home more than 140 people and their vehicles on Friday and Saturday nights.

A man sustained minor stab wounds after he foiled a robbery in progress at his home in Citadel Heights last weekend. Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung told The Tri-City News that the resident woke up to a noise at around 1:30 a.m.

For years, Burquitlam believed its voice wasn't heard.

Freedom of the City is the highest honour a municipality can bestow upon one of its citizens. But for Port Moody's Ann Kitching, it was yet another opportunity in her tireless quest to promote the arts.

Two young offenders have been arrested in connection with a vicious stabbing last month that sent a Port Coquitlam youth to hospital.

Mounties are seeking the public's assistance in identifying two people believed to have been involved in a mailbox break-in at an apartment in Coquitlam last month.

Malls are busy places for shoppers as the holiday season gets into full swing. But thieves are also at work, and consumers must be wary. Coquitlam RCMP advises people to remove anything of value from their car - especially Christmas purchases.