Living

A trio of new books offers creative insight and advice for couples planning to tie the knot.

IN this city - birthplace of the 100-Mile Diet - it's not hard to find a chef who talks a good sustainability game.

IT'S a dilemma many of us face when contemplating a renovation: "Does it make financial sense to do what we want to do?" and, like most enigmas, there's rarely an apparent answer to the question.

THE humble chicken is a worldwide menu superstar. No other meat is as widely used in as many varied preparations. Instead of settling for boring baked chicken breasts, try one of these easy recipes and give your chicken an international flair.

I have a friend who started learning how to play the piano when she was 35. Until that time she had no interest and she told me that if her parents had forced her to learn when she was young she likely would have hated it.

Ethan McKeen, 11, Highlands elementary Art teacher: Kathleen Baker Favourite art: cartooning and sketching Favourite artist: Chuck Jones His teacher writes: Ethan amazes all with the intricacy and creativity in his artwork.

A $1,500 donation from the Rotary Club of West Vancouver will allow a unique library program for special needs students to continue for another year. Created in 2001, Special Needs Storytime begins on Jan.

INVASIVE, exotic and alien are terms used to describe plants that are not normally growing in a particular ecosystem at a given point in history.

SEVERAL weeks into 2013 is a good time to reassess being a cord cutter in Canada, especially since recent brochures from both Telus and Shaw have landed in my mailbox. Both are begging me to return to conventional TV, and both gave me pause.