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Residents across the Tri-Cities will be excavating their dusty storage rooms and the dark recesses of their basements as they prepare for city-wide garage sales later this month.

Steve Lindsay built Lindsay Music, a cavernous Port Coquitlam rock and roll palace, from the ground up with his own two hands. "There was just nothing here when I bought it," he said. "I put in the windows, the walls, everything.

It's a tale of two ridings, one battle-hardened with election-ready veterans game for a fight; the other an uneven contest with three political Lilliputians facing a political giant.

This morning, Tri-City churches shut their doors on the final night of the cold/wet weather mat program to shelter the homeless for the winter.

The introduction of green cart kitchen waste collection in Coquitlam last fall should not increase the number of bear sightings in the municipality this summer, according to the city's Bear Aware co-ordinator.

Thieves are thinking twice about stealing cars in the Tri-Cities, according to the latest ICBC statistics, which show a dramatic decrease in auto theft since the introduction of the bait car program.

A development company says it's building a 29-storey tower in Coquitlam City Centre but city staff say it's only 25 floors.

Speaker Angela Baldonero of Return Path, an internet company, will speak on ways of driving company-wide initiatives that support a company's culture and team environment.

Women are not suitably socialized about money, so say numerous experts and studies concerning women's aversion to investment and retirement planning.

Another fundraiser for the family of Charlene Reaveley, one of two women struck and killed in an alleged hit-and-run last month, has surpassed its fundraising goal.