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The number of homeless camps being discovered and broken up by Port Coquitlam bylaw officials fell dramatically last year as more people are finding places to sleep indoors.

More Port Coquitlam commuters are travelling shorter distances to get to and from work and many are not even leaving the municipality at all, according to the city's Master Transportation Plan update.

Port Moody police say they have uncovered a rash of frauds preying upon young people in at least one city high school and likely occurring across the Tri-Cities.

Only two months have passed since Port Moody began its new biweekly waste-collection schedule but the city claims to have already reduced the amount of trash sent to the landfill by approximately 40% and increased its recovery of organic waste by mor

Cory Sater, the Coquitlam man charged in the Feb. 19 hit-and-run deaths Charlene Reaveley and Lorraine Cruz, will not make his scheduled appearance in Port Coquitlam provincial court on Thursday.

Lack of financial knowledge is putting Canadians at risk of a debt melt-down like the one experienced recently by Americans, warns a veteran Tri-Cities business education teacher.

Heat pumps may be an environmentally friendly way of heating and cooling a home but some Tri-City residents are finding out the appliances are creating a different kind of pollution: noise.

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.