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Thrifty Foods celebrates 25 years of volunteer shopping program

After 25 years serving thousands of housebound Thrifty Foods customers across Vancouver Island, Saltspring Island and the Lower Mainland, President Jim Dores today marked the 25th Anniversary of the volunteer-run shopping service, Sendial.

Highway 1 HOV rules dropped on weekends

HOV lanes on Highway 1 will be open to all traffic on the weekends starting this Friday as construction on the freeway widening project intensifies.

Open house for PoCo shelter

Port Coquitlam residents will get their chance to learn more about a temporary overnight homeless shelter proposed for Grace Church at an open house this week.

Hope Lutheran kids are helping others

A group of Hope Lutheran Grade 8 students are learning how to cook - and be compassionate to others less fortunate then they are.

Progress on Partington plan

A detailed plan for what Burke Mountain's biggest neighbourhood will look like in 20 years will likely be unveiled this summer.

All quiet on the budget front at SD43 board meeting

School District 43 will be holding its second board meeting of the year tomorrow, Tuesday at the board office at 7:30 p.m.

UPDATED: Build Murray-Clarke Connector now, says Trasolini

Traffic in Port Moody is reaching untenable levels and unless the provincial government steps up with funding for the Murray-Clarke Connector things could get a lot worse.

Mounties sorry for being slow to catch Pickton

The RCMP's top officer in B.C. has apologized for the force's failure to stop serial killer Robert Pickton sooner. Assistant Commissioner Craig Callens made the statement Friday outside the Missing Women Inquiry .

Police scoped Pickton farm for subterranean lair

Police so strongly suspected Robert Pickton might be killing prostitutes in the late 1990s they tried using infrared photography on the hunch he had an underground dungeon beneath the Port Coquitlam farm.

Home-cooked meals for Coquitlam homeless

A group of Hope Lutheran Grade 8 students are learning how to cook - and be compassionate to others less fortunate then they are.