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Traffic in Port Moody is reaching untenable levels and unless the provincial government steps up with funding for the Murray-Clarke Connector things could get a lot worse.

The RCMP's top officer in B.C. has apologized for the force's failure to stop serial killer Robert Pickton sooner. Assistant Commissioner Craig Callens made the statement Friday outside the Missing Women Inquiry .

Police so strongly suspected Robert Pickton might be killing prostitutes in the late 1990s they tried using infrared photography on the hunch he had an underground dungeon beneath the Port Coquitlam farm.

A group of Hope Lutheran Grade 8 students are learning how to cook - and be compassionate to others less fortunate then they are.

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.