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Drivers should be aware of some late night road closures this weekend as construction continues on the Port Mann Highway 1 project. Early Sunday morning (March 18), from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.

There will be no delays to Port Mann Bridge construction while the contractor repairs a broken gantry , says a spokesperson from the Port Mann/Highway 1 Improvement Project.

A year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, scenes of destruction and carnage still shock the world. But for Port Coquitlam resident James Morris, the images of the disaster broadcast on his television hit closer to home.

Coquitlam Centre is looking for aspiring teenaged writers to blog about "What They're Shopping For." Students must be between the ages of 13 and 18 years old and attending school full time to be their official teen blogger for 2012.

A Port Moody councillor says Burrard Inlet's ecosystem is at risk of being wiped out by the goods being shipped along the city's shores and she wants limits placed on how big industries do business.

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The Port Moody Heritage Society is gearing up for the city's centennial celebrations with a hardcover book and a (very) short film.

The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce is pushing councillors in Coquitlam, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam to adopt a mobile business licensing process that would apply across all three cities.

Riverview Hospital will be studied again, this time for a new heritage conservation plan (HCP) commissioned by the province. The request for proposals was issued in November 2011 and awarded in January to North Vancouver-based Denise Cook Design.

A zoning bylaw change approved at Tuesday's Port Moody council meeting has closed a loophole that allowed some residents to build four-storey homes. The old bylaw limited the height of a home to 10.5 m or three storeys (not including the basement).