Local News

Team pushes education to stay safe

Calling all artists: Bosa Development and the District of North Vancouver are seeking a team to create public artwork for Lynn Valley town centre.

North Shore public schools rank among the best in the province when it comes to academic achievement, according to the latest Fraser Institute report.

As the old adage goes, there are two things certain in life: death and taxes. North Vancouver city residents will feel the property tax pinch slightly more than their district counterparts, with this year's fees increasing by 3.9 per cent and 2.

Parents urged to not buy booze for teens

The 26 families displaced by last week’s fire at the River Woods Housing Co-op will eventually be able to move back home — although most are facing a long wait to find somewhere to live in the meantime.

Conservation officers have shot and killed a cougar spotted around the lower Capilano River. The cougar first started showing up in the neighbourhood earlier in the week.

A 60-year-old woman missing from a North Vancouver seniors home for almost a week has been found unharmed. Ruth Elizabeth Mitchell was located by police in a park near to her care home Thursday morning shortly after 10 a.m.

Police are hoping the public can help them find a senior who has gone missing from the North Vancouver care home where she lives. Ruth Elizabeth Mitchell — who goes by the name Raoul — was last seen on the evening of May 8 at her home on Burr Place.

BC Ferries president Mike Corrigan, William Clewes, Vancouver Shipyards’ director of operations and ferry captain Esther Allen were on hand May 8 for the official naming of the Baynes Sound Connector, a new cable ferry that was the first vessel built