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Changes to the Windsor Gate development will go ahead after Coquitlam council authorized proposed amendments at Monday's meeting.

Coquitlam homeowners will likely pay 3.34% more in property taxes next year, the lowest tax hike the city has seen since 2005 and the fourth straight year of declining increases.

A proposal for a 43-storey tower in Coquitlam's Town Centre raised eyebrows at Monday's council meeting, but it wasn't because of the neck-craning height of the building.

A Tri-City Christmas tradition is changing this year, with the CP Rail Holiday Train being welcomed in a new location and on a new night.

A date for killer Allan Schoenborn's annual review hearing has been set for Feb. 15, 2013. The hearing before the BC Review Board was originally scheduled for Nov. 23 but was delayed due to his lawyer's illness.

The Evergreen Line will run on Bombardier cars.

Thousands of items need to be collected between now and Dec. 9 to make sure holiday hampers are filled for struggling families who use the Share Family and Community Services food banks.

Two people were sent to hospital for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a townhouse complex on Ozada Avenue in northeast Coquitlam on Saturday.

The mother of Amanda Todd is lauding the efforts of anti-bullying advocates who are trying to make Port Coquitlam a bully-free zone and she hopes people will join the Snowflake Walk to End Bullying this weekend.

Holiday shoppers at Coquitlam Centre mall were evacuated Sunday afternoon after a gas leak was discovered near the loading dock of the Bay department store. Coquitlam Fire and Rescue was on the scene shortly after 3:20 p.m.