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Former Port Moody Mayor and current NDP candidate for Port Moody-Coquitlam Joe Trasolini will be making a transportation announcement Monday morning.

Great-West Life statistics show that, on average, 1 in 3 people will be disabled for 90 days or longer at least once before the age of 65 and that the average length of a disability over 90 days is 2.9 years.

Setting a goal of $40,000, the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation kicked off its annual Have a Heart campaign last week with a flurry of letters addressed to Tri-City homes asking residents to help their community.

Port Moody council hopes to entice more residents out to the budget town hall meeting by offering a door prize - possibly an iPad. Earlier this month the finance committee considered several ways of generating more interest in the budget process.

Before November a person living in the Tri-Cities seeking a vegan, gluten-free dining experience was destined for a trip to Vancouver. Not anymore.

By Kyle Slavin Black Press A Pinetree secondary grad studying at the University of Victoria died last week after contracting meningicoccal disease, a bloodstream-based bacterial infection.

The stunning pace of growth in Coquitlam over the last year reflects confidence by in the future of the suburban city, says the manager of economic development for the city.

Five arts and cultural groups that operate out of Coquitlam city facilities went before council this week to ask for more money in their budgets this year.

Comments received at an open house about the future of Coquitlam's oldest neighbourhood are now being worked into an updated plan for the area.

Putting a final nail in the Evergreen Line skeptic's coffin, officials announced in Port Moody Wednesday morning the first pre-construction contract awards for the long-awaited SkyTrain line to the Tri-Cities.