Local News

Coquitlam voters may have more than a list of candidates to choose from during the November municipal race. City council is expected to decide over the next few weeks if a referendum question will be added to the ballot.

It might be a year away but students, parents and teachers who like to plan ahead can look forward to a two week-spring break in 2012 - as well as an extra day on the Remembrance Day long weekend this fall.

The chair of the Tri-Cities' board of education wants a new funding mechanism for B.C. schools after the district was hit both with new costs and more cash after passing its $260-million 2011/'12 budget Tuesday evening.

It may not be the real world but, these days, you've got to meet students where they're at.

Rotary Club members are asking Tri-City residents to open up their hearts, wallets and pantries to help the food bank during Rotary's Generous Hearts food drive May 28 and 29. On those days, from noon to 5 p.m.

The saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is getting some new emphasis at several Tri-City public schools.

A man accused of carrying out a string of violent robberies targeting women in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and across Metro Vancouver will remain in custody until a bail hearing next month.

School District 43's green man is moving to new digs but that doesn't mean he's giving up his environmental portfolio.

The lawyer for Cory Sater, the man charged with killing Charlene Reaveley and Lorraine Cruz in an alleged hit-and-run crash in February, appeared in Port Coquitlam court Wednesday to set a date for trial.

A fountain started spraying this week in Coquitlam's Lafarge Lake.