Local News

Several apartment buildings in Coquitlam were evacuated Tuesday afternoon after an excavator hit a gas line in the area. The leak impacted several city blocks and forced the closure of Clarke Road near the Burnaby border.

Port Moody's St. Andrew's United Church is putting a call out to residents interested in volunteering when the church hosts the cold/wet weather mat program next month.

Coquitlam coffers are flush with cash after the city received its latest payment as host to the Boulevard Casino . The city received $1.7 million from the provincial government for the Oct. 1 to Dec.

A new program combining online learning, personal inquiry and mentorship from teachers and members of the community is generating interest from School District 43 students and their families, says the principal.

Coquitlam council may pull the plug on the city's oldest outdoor pool. City staff said this week there will be no summer swimming again this year at Rochester Pool because of cracks in the tank and gutters.

Port Coquitlam photographer Steve Smith took a boat trip on the Fraser River last Friday and captured a unique view of the Port Mann/Highway 1 project. Above, a crew raises a prefabricated steel segment of bridge undercarriage.

For five months, B.C. public schools have been coping with the teachers' labour dispute.

Port Coquitlam parks are under siege by midnight marauders and a local resident thinks something should be done about it.

Coquitlam has a new online face to project to the world. On Monday at midnight, the city's new website ( www.coquitlam.ca ) went live, replacing the outdated community portal powered for 10 years by citysoup.

Everything but the kitchen sink - including a toilet - was cleaned up from the banks of the Coquitlam River Sunday, resulting in a mound of garbage eight feet high.