Local News

A fire early Sunday morning that burned down a vacant home slated for demolition in the Burquitlam area may have been deliberately set.

Collective bargaining is the best way to reach a settlement between the BC Teachers' Federation and the BC Public School Employers' Association, says the School District 43 board of education.

A B.C. Provincial Court judge has shot down the first attempt to televise the sentencing of a Stanley Cup rioter via the web.

A 30-year-old co-operative housing project in Coquitlam on the corner of Glen Drive and Johnson Street could be rebuilt if a rezoning and land sale proposal goes through.

School District 43 provided a psychologist to substitute teacher Aleksandr Plehanov to help him with his "boundary issues" more than a month before he was arrested for sexual interference and sexual assault.

Many consumers probably have coins, antiques, or jewellery collecting dust in the attic. Better Business Bureau (BBB) would like to warn consumers who are looking to cash in their old items to be wary of travelling antique shows.

An RCMP helicopter and several police dogs were dispatched to the Coquitlam City Centre neighbourhood Saturday night in order to track two suspected car thieves. The two men had been attempting to break into a vehicle at about 11 p.m.

Canada's governor general will be in Coquitlam this week to talk with cultural leaders about Maillardville.

Coquitlam RCMP are asking for information on a missing man who didn't turn up for Christmas as promised. Joseph Harold Dumont, 45, spoke to his mother in Quebec in December with plans to fly home for the holidays.

Krista Langtry and Melanie Montgomery, two local entrepreneur moms who run the brand new Younique fitness studio on Clarke Street in Port Moody will be 'GROOVIN 4 W2H' on Friday, Feb. 17 at 6.30 p.m.