Local News

Coquitlam homeowners got a dreaded piece of mail from the city this week: the annual utility bill. And the numbers aren't pretty.

A neighbourhood park in Coquitlam's City Centre will be revamped, with a children's playground, an outdoor fitness area, sports courts, walking trails, picnic spots and an off-leash dog run.

Port Coquitlam council has approved a plan that is intended to serve as a blueprint to the city's environmental decisions for the next decade.

Yet another apartment building is planned for Burquitlam, signaling that developers are ready to densify the neighbourhood before the Evergreen Line goes up Clarke Road.

Plans to restore a heritage home in Maillardville and build French-Canadian style apartments around it came before Coquitlam's land use committee this week. Architect Matthew Cheng said Guang Xin Development Ltd.

There were at least two other Good Samaritans at the scene of the fatal hit-and-run crash that took the lives of 26-year-old Lorraine Cruz and 30-year-old Charlene Reaveley, and Mounties are pleading with them to come forward.

A speaker on personal finances used the oldest trick in the book to get Terry Fox students to pay attention to his money-management message last Monday. He gave away cash.

A fundraiser is being held this weekend in Port Moody for the family of Charlene Reaveley, a mother of four who was killed in a hit-and-run accident last week. The event will be held Sunday, March 6 between 12:30 and 3 p.m.

Two separate car accidents in Coquitlam Thursday night put six people in hospital including an 18-year-old man who remained there with serious injuries Friday afternoon. The first incident happened shortly after 9:30 p.m.

Tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) may be the single most important change to Canada's tax code since RRSPs were launched in 1957 and yet they are largely ignored.