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Judy Turner spent Wednesday morning looking for people who didn't necessarily want to be found.

In an emergency meeting Tuesday night, Port Moody city council officially and unanimously refused Metro Vancouver's Regional Growth Strategy (RGS), ending weeks of tough talk among councillors who panned the plan.

Documents were inked, gifts were swapped and photos were snapped for posterity at a signing ceremony Wednesday between the city of Coquitlam and a region of China.

Burquitlam Funeral Chapel in association with local seniors residences is offering two free estate planning seminars March 31 and April 7.

Shouting and whistling through heavy mist on the Upper Coquitlam River Tuesday, eight men took turns leaping into the roaring water while the other seven worked to pull him out again.

After years of difficult budgets, school closures, threatened layoffs and wrangling over cuts to school busing, School District 43 appears to be in a better position financially as it starts budget deliberations for the 2011/'12 year.

The rain fell in sheets as the Grade 6 and 7 Montgomery middle school students jotted notes on clipboards, collected bugs in a net and stuck water quality probes into Booth Creek.

Port Moody Station Museum has a new website, thanks to a local web services company that provided the make-over for free. The web services company thev3h.

The city of Coquitlam appears to be headed down the same path as Port Moody in rejecting the draft Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) for Metro Vancouver.

Cory Sater, the Coquitlam man charged in the Feb. 19 hit-and-run deaths of Charlene Reaveley and Lorraine Cruz, did not appear in court Thursday for a scheduled bail hearing.