Tri-Cities Dispatch

The Tri-Cities Dispatch is a community-focused non-profit media organization serving the Tri-Cities region, which includes Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody. Our goal is to keep the residents of the Tri-Cities informed with essential news and information about their community, featuring high-quality original journalism and reporting. Our main offering is a daily morning newsletter that highlights the most important and engaging stories for Tri-Cities residents in a fun and informative way.

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Local breweries face uncertainty amid U.S.-Canada trade war – Tri-Cities Dispatch

4 weeks ago | tricitiesdispatch.com | Hanna Hett

Some are sourcing cans from Asia and hops from Australia, New Zealand
Demise of three Metro Vancouver community news outlets mirrors troubling pattern in Canada, experts say – Tri-Cities Dispatch

1 month ago | tricitiesdispatch.com | Patrick Penner

Tri-City News staff march in Coquitlam’s 1991 centennial parade. photo by Mario Bartel courtesy of City of Coquitlam ArchivesLocal news is set to become scarcer for about 600,000 Metro Vancouver residents, as three long-standing community publications prepare to shut down. Glacier Media’s impending closures of the Tri-City News, Burnaby Now, and the New West Record will eliminate 60 percent of the journalistic workforce across five cities and two villages.
Despite having more housing units than parking spots, Coquitlam council approves apartment between the highways – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Oct 22, 2024 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Jeremy Shepherd

images suppliedThis story has been amended since first posting to correct an error regarding the project’s proximity to SkyTrain. Either this is the opening salvo in a neighbourhood parking war – or the new residents will take the bus. Despite opposition from two city councillors, Coquitlam council ultimately approved a six-storey rental building on Monday. The apartment includes 175 units.
Coquitlam council gets first look at six-tower gateway project – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Sep 23, 2024 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Jeremy Shepherd

Coquitlam council gets first look at six-tower gateway project photo Jeremy ShepherdIt would mean the end of Denny’s and the beginning of approximately 2,400 new housing units on North Road across from Lougheed Town Centre. Coquitlam council got its first official look at Wesgroup development company’s plans for the 7.8-acre site on the border of Coquitlam and Burnaby.
From the City of the Arts to the National Parks – Tri-Cities Dispatch

May 2, 2024 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Marissa Tiel

photos supplied Kelsey VossKelsey Voss sits at attention. A display of postcards, magnets, T-shirts and more sits next to her. All the products bear her national park designs. There’s dancing fireweed and mountains for Glacier National Park, bison for Yellowstone National Park, a reflection of the northern lights for Isle Royale National Park. It’s early March and Voss is in San Francisco, Cali. for the Public Lands Alliance Convention, a who’s who of US National Parks.
Developers will profit and growth will stagnate under B.C.’s new rules, warn Coquitlam councillors – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Feb 6, 2024 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Jeremy Shepherd

file photo Marissa TielCritical changes to the municipal development process could take hundreds of millions of dollars out of city coffers while triggering a housing slowdown, warned Coquitlam council on Monday. “We’re going to build less housing in 2024 than 2023,” predicted Mayor Richard Stewart. For decades, developers have paid Community Amenity Charges when building projects bigger or denser than the city envisioned.
Keep smiling and don’t take yourself too seriously: Anmore founder Hal Weinberg dies at 90 – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Jan 30, 2024 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Jeremy Shepherd

Hal and Linda Weinberg. photo Anmore StoriesHe didn’t want to see a slice of semi-rural paradise swallowed up by Port Moody. That was part of it, but, for Hal Weinberg, there was something more. Reflecting on the beginnings of the Village of Anmore, Weinberg discussed what he considered Canada’s finest ideals. “I always thought of Anmore as a model of how the diversity of opinion could be accepted with goodwill and friendliness.
Death of Port Coquitlam teenager was caused by cocaine and MDMA; coroner’s report concludes hydromorphone likely not a factor – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Jan 15, 2024 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Jeremy Shepherd

Death of Port Coquitlam teenager was caused by cocaine and MDMA; coroner’s report concludes hydromorphone likely not a factor TriCities Overdose Community Action Team photo. Port Coquitlam teenager Kamilah Sword died in August 2022 from a cardiac arrhythmia following cocaine and MDMA use, according to the coroner’s report. She was 14. Sword first reported using methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as ecstasy or MDMA, in December 2020.
The end of the walk? Horticulture society considers the future of səmiq̓ʷəʔelə tree tours – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Dec 3, 2023 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Marissa Tiel

Egan Davis poses for a photo following a tree tour organized by the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society. photos Marissa TielIt’s a Saturday in October and hundreds of nature lovers are gathered around an incense cedar. More than 80 years old, the towering conifer is the only representative of its species at səmiq̓ʷəʔelə ((suh-Mee-kwuh-El-uh), previously known as the Riverview Lands.
Beedie fined $297k for 'repeated violations' after worker collapses on job site – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Nov 26, 2023 | tricitiesdispatch.com | Jeremy Shepherd

photos Jeremy ShepherdOne worker had to be hospitalized last March after Beedie Construction failed to ensure carbon monoxide didn’t exceed exposure limits at an Austin Avenue job site, according to a WorkSafeBC report. “Although only one worker was injured, other workers may have been injured at this workplace,” the report stated. Workers were doing a “final cleaning” of the six-level parkade at the 1045 Austin Avenue highrise on March 22.