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It’s almost seven feet in height, six feet in width and is estimated to weigh a thousand pounds. And it won’t fit through the door of the new museum. Nor will it fit down its corridors.

Jacobs George, Powwow princess Teela Small Legs and Sariah Jacobs Green get set for the 31st annual Squamish Nation Youth Powwow July 13 to 15 at 100 Mathias Rd.

Lab techs practise arts of deduction and detection

Catalina Kobernick and Anna-Sophia Heyse celebrate Canada Day at Waterfront Park in North Vancouver Sunday, July 1 by eating vanilla and chocolate cupcakes topped with Canadian flags. photo Cindy Goodman, North Shore News

The USS Shoup (left), an American Arleigh Burke-Class destroyer and the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Calgary,a Halifax Class frigate, are docked at North Vancouver's Burrard Dry Dock Pier over the long weekend with the Calgary offering tours to the pub

The North Shore leg of this year’s Vancouver International Jazz Fest is entering into the long weekend with a highly anticipated performance by Keith Bennett and Miles Black who are paying homage to harmonica greats Jean-Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans a

All 565 students and more than 50 Ridgeway Elementary staff and parents, under the guidance of carver Darren Yelton, helped carve and paint the school's new Welcome Figure totem pole. The piece was unveiled Thursday during a ceremony at the school.