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Springs has sprung and with the warmer weather, Tri-City residents will need to properly secure their garbage and other animal attractants or risk coming into contact with bears.

Jerome Bouvier of Coquitlam is one of 35 persons named to receive a 2012 B.C. Community Achievement Award, it was announced Friday via a povincial government press release.

Tri-City residents can expect to see more cash coming to the region as a result of Thursday's budget, Conservative MP James Moore said immediately after his party's first majority financial plan was delivered.

The Overwaitea Food Group (OFG) (parent company of Save-On-Foods, Overwaitea Foods, Cooper's Foods, PriceSmart Foods and Urban Fare) has entered into an agreement to purchase all of Zellers pharmacy business including prescription files in B.C.

Coquitlam RCMP are reporting the17-year-old girl who was reported missing on Friday, March 30 has been located.

One chapter in the Tri-Cities' battle against homelessness has ended and another is about to begin as the five-year-old cold/wet weather mat program shuts down for the last time this weekend.

Locals representing unionized firefighters in the Tri-Cities will likely comb over a new collective agreement signed between the city of Vancouver and its unionized smoke-eaters.

It's too late for a green roof on the new Fire Hall #1 in Port Moody, according to city staff.

Between 39% and 57% of the 33,487 registered voters in the Port Moody-Coquitlam electoral district are expected to go to the polls on April 19, based on the last general election and a byelection held last year, which was won by Premier Christy Clark

An "intimidating" intersection for pedestrians in the centre of Coquitlam's commercial district will likely get a traffic light next year.