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Library launches its Community Pod

Warren Johnson talks with Vancouver Foundation

There’s a new dedicated space on the North Shore where residents can share their skills and expertise.The Community Pod officially opened June 15 at the Capilano branch of North Vancouver District Public Library.

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West Vancouver calls longboarders to meeting

The District of West Vancouver, its police and schools are all hoping to increase safety for longboarders with a public safety meeting next week.

VCH urges: Stop giving booze to teens

TEENAGERS are drinking, and a lot of times it's their own parents who are pouring the booze.

Comfort in crisis

WHEN a West Vancouver police officer knocks on a front door to deliver news that will shatter a person's life, it's the volunteers in the Victim Services unit that are there to immediately start picking...

North Vancouver donations save Filipina barista's life

FOR Janette Camba, coffee turned out to be very, very good for her health.

Playground shelters a nice-to-have: school board

IF North Vancouver students are to be kept out of the winter rains during their outside play time, it's not going to be the school board or the province paying for it.

Council debates 1300-blk Monday

WEST Vancouverites with an Ambleside opinion have at least one more chance to be heard this Monday as council considers pushing the Grosvenor proposal one step closer to reality.

West Van bear wrecks car, avoids riot charges

It wasn’t a bait car, but a West Vancouver sedan is missing some trim and covered in bear paw scratches after a curious bruin tried get in sometime Wednesday night, The incident happened on the ...

CapU cuts non-degree programs

THE axe has come down on a swath of Capilano University programs as the school's board of governors passed its 2013 budget aimed at tackling a $1.3-million shortfall.

Rogers plans 3 tall cell towers in West Vancouver

THREE new cell towers along the Upper Levels highway measuring between 74 and 169 feet may rise into West Vancouver's skyline if a new proposal from Rogers is approved by council - and possibly even if...

Judge jails North Vancouver man for riot role

A North Vancouver man who looted the downtown London Drugs store, stealing a cellphone on the night of the Stanley Cup hockey riot, has been handed a 45-day jail sentence.

West Vancouver agrees to waterfront rezoning

DISTRICT of West Vancouver council voted unanimously Monday in favour of scaled-down park uses for a popular stretch of waterfront in Ambleside.

Cyclist's death drives petition

A cycling tragedy last month has prompted a petition aiming to increase bike safety on the Stanley Park Causeway.

RCMP seek hit-and-run driver

A hit and run that left a cyclist with a broken arm Monday has left police looking for a witness.A 21-year-old North Vancouver man riding a red mountain bike collided with a dark-coloured sedan on Mount...

Billboard hypes pot referendum

ON the same day the federal government announced it will bring in greater restrictions for medicinal marijuana users, advocates of less-restrictive pot laws also wrote their own message large, with a ...

5 years for eye-gouging assault

A five-year jail sentence handed to his attacker has done little to allay the bitter feelings of 70-year-old Ron Perry, who lost an eye in a brutal beating connected to a marijuana grow-op.

Off-duty RCMP officer tackles fleeing suspect

EVEN when they're off duty, they're never really off duty.

Mountain biker dies in trail fall

AN American mountain biker has died on the trails in Lynn Headwater Regional Park.

Protector of the dammed

IT'S shortly after 4 a.m. and darkness still blankets the Columbia River Gorge.

Clark names Yamamoto to cabinet

NORTH Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA Naomi Yamamoto was named as minister of state for tourism and small business in Premier Christy Clark's new cabinet Friday, while veteran West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph...

West Vancouver offers dog licence amnesty

If your dog has been hiding from the law in West Vancouver, the time has come to confess.

Seniors complex hearing set

District of North Vancouver residents will have a chance to weigh in on the prospect of a seniors complex at Edgemont Village following council's May 27 decision to send the project to public hearing...

Lower Lynn to be transformed

District of North Vancouver council unanimously supported a 20-year plan to bring new housing, retail and office space to the Lower Lynn town centre at its May 27 meeting.

North Shore Rescue honoured with JIBC award

IT will come as no shock to the dozens of people whose lives they saved last year, but North Shore Rescue is being honoured for its contributions to public safety.

2 longboarders hurt in WV crash

WEST Vancouver police are issuing a plea to longboarders to think about their safety after four of them have been rushed to hospital in the last two weeks.

Districts on municipal auditor's agenda

TWO North Shore municipalities are among the first that will come under the scrutiny of British Columbia's newly appointed auditor general for local government.

MPs cool on Burnaby Seymour riding

NORTH Vancouver and Burnaby are simply too different to be mashed together into one federal electoral riding, a committee of MPs in Ottawa has concluded.

Psst! Want a free leather coat?

A familiar fraud may have returned to the North Shore after a smooth talker allegedly offered up seven leather jackets in a bid to charm a North Vancouver woodworker out of $300 on the afternoon of Saturday...

City sets courts for volleyball

NORTH Shore athletes are finally free to dig in at five new volleyball courts on the formerly vacant Lot 5 in Shipbuilders' Square on the City of North Vancouver's waterfront.

North Shore Winter Club warned not to use scab labour

B.C.’s Labour Relations Board has given the North Shore Winter Club a stern warning after determining the club used illegal replacement workers twice during its month-long lockout of union employees...

Grab a coffee and some free electricity

TIM Hortons may be known for its traditional donuts and coffee, but the Canadian company is taking an innovative step into the future as it installs six electric charging stations in B.C.

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Meet the Zanottos

Parents Tina and Franco Zanotto live with their adult children, Guiliana, 27, and Mareno, 26, and teenage daughter, Tatiana, in a neatly kept house in...

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Former NPA council candidate Bill McCreery

Ex-NPAers start their own Vancouver party

The political landscape leading up the 2014 civic election is shifting as a new party that includes community activists, former politicians and a retired...