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It was nearly midnight Jan. 24 when the tree came crashing down on Mt. Gardner Road on a group of passing teenagers.

Everyone’s been there, lurching along in stop-and-go traffic, wondering what’s at the other end of a long line of tail lights.

City crews were removing lead and asbestos from a 1908 heritage home at 168 East First Street this week. The city is holding the vacant home for possible future development.

A Richmond-based First Nations society, with connections to the fishing industry, is proposing to bring seal-hunting to the west coast.

There’s something brewing in North Van.

The North Vancouver School District is working on a deal with the development company Darwin Properties that would provide rental housing for teachers and other employees at below-market rates – if the development is approved by council.

Authorities in Colombia have made arrests in the disappearance and death of Ramazan (Ramo) Gencay, a Simon Fraser University professor and North Vancouver resident, who went missing during an academic trip to the country in December.

They concur on the disease but find themselves divided on the cure.

The population of the North Shore grew by 1,450 people over the last year, a growth rate of 0.7 per cent.

Initiative comes seven years after the B.C. government rejected Telus’s $40-million proposal