School District 43 in Coquitlam will receive $40,000 in funding for the Youth Work in Trades program to boost trades training for young people.

Students, teachers and staff at Westwood Elementary school in the Coquitlam school district will benefit from $270,500 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.  

Families in the Coquitlam school district will benefit from improved transportation services, thanks to $81,641 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.

Gleneagle Secondary student Kelvin Zhang is an incredible innovator with serious smarts. He loves using artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems. These days he’s focussing on the technology of self-driving cars.

Positive traffic changes will come into effect tomorrow at the Fawcett Road off-ramp from Highway 1 in Coquitlam, allowing general traffic to travel westbound onto United Boulevard during off-peak times of day, and all day on the weekends.

On July 28, 2016, a fire in a housing complex temporary displaced 10 Syrian refugee families in Coquitlam.

As part of the public safety funding announced in February 2016, the Province is committing $7.65-million in funding towards upgrading the Coquitlam dike and protecting homes and land at risk of flooding from high water levels in the Pitt River.