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Port Moody residents need never miss another garbage or recycling day now that there's an app for that. At Tuesday's council meeting, PoMo staff introduced the new garbage recycling app for smart phones, which is launching today (Friday).

Tri-City school trustees' wages and expenses tripled in 2011/'12, according to School District 43's latest financial figures, and a conference in Boston may be behind in the spike in expenses for some of them.

A sub-aquatic water line linking North Vancouver with Belcarra is complete and approximately 300 homeowners and one million visitors to Belcarra Regional Park will be the beneficiaries.

Port Coquitlam council vote unanimously in favour of a resolution that instructs staff to create a bylaw that would make it an offence to bully in the municipality.

Ryan Crossley, the 22-year-old responsible for the death of Port Coquitlam's Jesse Penner, will not be released from prison when his six-year sentence comes to an end next week.

Amanda Todd, the name of a Port Coquitlam girl who died in October after posting a video about her struggles was one of the most searched in the world in 2012, according a ranking of search trends by the search engine giant Google.

Coquitlam RCMP closed off an elementary school on Wednesday afternoon after three students believed they saw an armed man walking through the school yard. Cpl.

School District 43 trustees spent a total of $18,226 in expenses last year, according to the latest statement of financial information for the 2011/2012 school year.

The last of the early works contracts for the Evergreen Line has been awarded to Langley-based Pedre Contractors Ltd. to install underground power lines in Coquitlam.

The Port Coquitlam and Port Moody centennial planning committees got an early Christmas gift in the form of hefty cheques from the federal government.