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Squamish chief airs land deal details at band meeting

Prepare mushy thighs and jelly calves for a dose of lactic acid – the Grouse Grind is opening for the season on Saturday. Metro Vancouver staffers will unlock the gate at 6:30 a.m. to open a new season on Mother Nature’s Stairmaster.

One charity’s trash could be another man’s treasure.

District of North Vancouver council is taking a farm-fresh look at its bylaw that bans backyard chickens. The request came Monday night from the Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub, or CLUCK, a group advocating for backyard hens.

Capilano University has named a former dean of its faculty of business and professional studies as its new president. J. Paul Dangerfield will be taking the top job this fall after current president Kris Bulcroft retires in July.

She’s only one week old, but baby Leah has all the makings of a Daddy’s girl. That’s after her father, North Vancouver’s Adam Dodds, stepped in to deliver his daughter at home after the baby’s unexpectedly fast arrival April 22.

A Burnaby man who passed himself off as a certified general accountant then used his position of trust to defraud a North Vancouver business out of almost $400,000 should go to jail for between two and three years, a Crown prosecutor has argued.

Inflation, aging infrastructure, climate change driving costs

After an ill-fated attempt at exile, Park Royal welcomed back kings and queens and the chess players who command them last Sunday.

What started as a cost-cutting measure employed by drug dealers has turned into a public health disaster. Provincial health officer Dr.