Local News

Vancouver's Integrated Riot Investigation Team (IRIT) has recommended another 200 charges against 50 suspected Stanley Cup rioters, including three Tri-City residents. Two Coquitlam residents and a third from Port Moody are among the suspects.

Dogs are learning's best friend.

Contractors are busy laying fibre optic cable in Coquitlam to connect School District 43 offices and four schools to faster internet service by mid-October.

Parents should share in the responsibility for making sure they and their kids act appropriately on the internet when doing school-related work or business, says the chair of the School District 43 board of education.

The race for NDP candidates in the BC Liberal stronghold of Coquitlam-Burke Mountain is heating up.

Local businesses will have plenty of opportunities to discuss the future of the economy and learn more about improving the bottom line during Small Business Week Oct. 15-19. The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce is hosting a number of events that week.

A draft Riverview Heritage Conservation Plan made available to the public this week is recommending a maintenance and stabilization plan be developed to prevent Riverview buildings from deteriorating.

Open houses are planned for tomorrow (Wednesday), at Parkland elementary school and Thursday at Porter Street elementary, both in Coquitlam, to discuss selling surplus land on the properties for single family housing.

Anmore's newest councillor will be sworn into office next month. Village resident Ann-Marie Thiele topped the polls in a byelection Saturday with 290 votes.

A builder has been fined $500 for washing concrete water wash down a storm drain which resulted in the deaths of several coho and a clogged up a drain in Coquitlam last week.