Local News

By Peter Kinch As I flipped through the business papers this week, I was struck with a sense of having already seen these headlines before.

After months of public squabbling between Port Moody city hall and the firefighters' union, plans for a new fire hall are expected to be approved Tuesday by city council.

More than 100 people turned up this week to review the plans for the next - and biggest - neighbourhood to be built in northeast Coquitlam.

Port Moody is urging residents to keep their bear-resistant bins tethered, stored in a shed or in a garage until the morning of collection day after several of the sturdy containers were destroyed by hungry bruins.

When an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan in March, much of the communication infrastructure was wiped out across huge swaths of the country.

School District 43 has hired three retired principals to fill temporary positions in local schools.

The city of Coquitlam is targeting litter and scattered garbage in launching its Adopt-A-Street program this week.

Students with an interest in law enforcement are getting a sneak peak while receiving high school credit as part of the Coquitlam RCMP's Introduction to Policing course.

Port Moody photographer Ronnie Miranda used a gigapan imager to take a photo of the crowd on Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver prior to the Stanley Cup riot June 15.

A section of Porter Street in Coquitlam is getting a new name. Veterans Way signs will be posted along the stretch of road between King Albert and Winslow avenues, which leads up to the Coquitlam cenotaph in honour of the Canadian Armed Forces.