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Jim Kempton felt only relief when he was told he had cancer. Finally, he could put a name to his pain and fight it with all his might. Six months prior, the Port Coquitlam man woke up with an ache in his neck.

Coquitlam city hall will try to cast a wider net for input as it plans for two neighbourhoods.

A motorcycle driver was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after a single-vehicle accident Saturday night in the 500-block of the Lougheed Highway.

More than a decade after Coquitlam spent thousands of dollars to commission a study on how to tackle tourism, the city has brought on a manager to stoke interest locally.

Hallway medicine has come to Eagle Ridge Hospital, according to a letter calling for a $20-million expansion and more operating funding for the Port Moody hospital to provide more beds and reduce inefficiencies that cost Fraser Health more money.

Parents of kindergarten children in School District 43 should pay close attention to a letter that should have come in their kid's backpacks this week alerting them to an important program that could save their child's vision.

School District 43 didn't get all the property it needed in a land deal between Wesbild and the provincial government to build an elementary and middle school on Burke Mountain, it was revealed this week.

On Saturday, April 26, children and families can be stream stewards for a day as they take part in the release of thousands of salmon smolts into Hyde Creek in Port Coquitlam.

Throughout Burquitlam, construction is booming. Hammers are pounding and saws are cutting in anticipation of the Evergreen Line, which is set to begin running along North and Clarke roads by summer 2016.

A program that provides telephone reassurance, visits, grocery delivery and other supports to isolated seniors was poised to expand just weeks before it lost a major contract worth half of its funding, The Tri-City News has learned.