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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.

Port Moody's Official Community is set for the next stage of public input after first and second readings were approved Tuesday. On Tuesday, April 22, a public hearing will be held on the controversial document.

School District 43 trustees learned they will be making some tough calls to pare back an anticipated $13.

Port Moody council gave Belcarra South cabin dwellers some hope Tuesday when it agreed to look further into the heritage aspect of seven cottages in the regional park.

A section of Como Lake Avenue will be closed for three days beginning this Saturday to allow Evergreen Line contractors to safely reposition a portion of the guideline which moved off its temporary supports last month .