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Tri-City candidates vying for a seat at the municipal or school board table have until 4 p.m today (Friday) to pull out of the race. And one Coquitlam council contender has already withdrawn his name from the Nov. 15 election.

For more than 80 years, Cap's Westwood Cycle has donated money, bikes and gear to dozens of charitable causes. But the local business' latest fundraising endeavour is a little more personal - and urgent - than the rest.

No longer a draft, Port Moody's official community plan is finally, well, official. And while Mayor Mike Clay now aims to tackle other city business, his challenger in the mayoral race, Gaetan Royer, is planning for a different future.

It's time to move on, Port Moody council said Tuesday night, as it approved the official community plan that will guide the city's growth over the next three decades.

Port Moody residents will be getting monthly curbside glass pick-up, likely starting early in the new year. Glass hasn't been picked up in PoMo since Multi-Material BC (MMBC) took over residential recycling programs across B.C.

On Wednesday at 6:30 a.m., a ship loading at Pacific Coast Terminals in Port Moody experienced a hose failure, spilling an estimated 120 tonnes of canola oil into Burrard Inlet.

Helping candidates get their message out to voters is the goal of a partnership between Tri-Cities Community Television and the Tri-City News .

A man who was caught on camera allegedly keying a parked car at Belcarra Regional Park last month has been identified by the Coquitlam RCMP. The incident occurred on Sept.

Barb Hobson served as a School District 43 trustee from 1996 to 2002, three of those years as board chair.

Should candidates live in the city in which they are running? Although there is no residency requirement in municipal and school board elections, that question has been bandied about on Twitter in recent weeks as the election campaign heats up toward