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Think you know the North Shore? Take our year-end quiz

Think you know the North Shore? Take our year-end quiz

Take your seats, class. It’s pop quiz day. No, District of North Vancouver, you can’t defer this test until 2020. West Vancouver, glad to see you made it, I guess the bus was on time today.
Kicking the Clutter: Five tips for recycling and reusing during the holidays

Kicking the Clutter: Five tips for recycling and reusing during the holidays

More than ever before people are making a conscious effort to recycle and reuse everything they can. That definitely includes tons of holiday decorations, wrapping paper and gifts that will never be used.
How to get through YVR in one piece during the holiday season?

How to get through YVR in one piece during the holiday season?

YVR has travel trips to get passengers through the airport hassle-free over the busy holiday season.
Rush on to save Ron Thom's West Vancouver masterpiece from destruction

Rush on to save Ron Thom's West Vancouver masterpiece from destruction

Heritage advocates are mounting an urgent campaign to save a masterpiece of West Coast Modern architecture from demolition. The owner of a Ron Thom-designed home at 1143 Eyremont Dr.
Avalanche risk high in the North Shore Mountains

Avalanche risk high in the North Shore Mountains

Avalanche Canada has issued its first warning of the winter, alerting anyone going into the North Shore Mountains of high-risk conditions in the alpine and treeline.
B.C. government now selling cannabis edibles, extracts and topicals

B.C. government now selling cannabis edibles, extracts and topicals

What happened : The B.C. government is now selling and distributing new categories of legal non-medical cannabis products thanks to its British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch (BCLDB) receiving its first shipment of these goods on December 18.
Greater Vancouver Food Bank is desperate for volunteers

Greater Vancouver Food Bank is desperate for volunteers

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is in desperate need of weekly volunteers and has put a call out to the community to offer a helping hand.
North Vancouver Shipyards skating rink opens Thursday

North Vancouver Shipyards skating rink opens Thursday

Free public skating on 12,000-square-foot rink begins tomorrow at noon
Driving while texting? Not so smart, say North Van teens

Driving while texting? Not so smart, say North Van teens

DWT? SMH. Earlier this month, teens in North Vancouver found out just how uncool driving and texting can be with the help of an ICBC driving simulator.
West Vancouver taxes to jump 6.11 per cent

West Vancouver taxes to jump 6.11 per cent

West Vancouver homeowners are looking at a 6.11 per cent increase in their municipal property tax and utility bills in 2020. For the owner of a property assessed at the $3.