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Changes needed to help housing crisis, says council

Explosives management contractors will spend the next two weeks hunting for possible munitions left and forgotten on the former Blair Rifle Range site in North Vancouver.

One man is in custody and facing charges after allegedly assaulting construction workers with bear spray at Park Royal South Monday morning. West Vancouver police were called to the Cineplex theatres’ temporary construction office just after 8:30 a.

From the beach just outside the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ lab in West Vancouver, the waters of Sandy Cove sparkle in the sunlight. But the picture-perfect scene masks a less pristine reality.

West Vancouver police say impaired driving is suspected in a spectacular head-on crash in Dundarave Friday evening. Police say the driver of an eastbound Range Rover crossed over the centre line on Marine Drive at 22nd Street, just after 8 p.m.

Finance Minister Carole James announced a raft of new tax measures Tuesday to help pay for major investments in child care and affordable housing and cover the cost of eliminating medical services plan premiums.

Demolition of the old West Vancouver Police Department building at 13th Street and Marine Drive continues Monday with workers shifting, digging and sorting the rubble.

One of the subjects of a harrowing overnight rescue in the North Shore mountains’ backcountry last weekend is sharing his perspective; literally. North Shore Rescue volunteers long-lined two people off the ice of the north side of Crown Mountain Feb.

Burnaby Mountain will once again be the site of a mass demonstration. In response to Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain expansion project, anti-pipeline activists are organizing a protest on March 10.

Jessica Wue performs traditional Chinese fan dancing at Lonsdale Quay Market as part of it's 2018 Lunar New Year celebrations including Lion Dance blessing with Market merchants as the Year of the Dog gets underway.