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Bing Crosby won’t have to dream about it. On most of the North Shore, he can have his white Christmas. A winter storm arrived as predicted Tuesday morning but it brought with it far more snow than Environment Canada was initially forecasting.

Animal lovers are urging residents on the North Shore to stop using rat poison after a number of owls have been inadvertently killed in recent weeks.

Police and municipal works crews were still busy mopping up Tuesday evening after an unexpected dump of snow hit the North Shore in the morning. Snow had initially been predicted to start later at high elevations, but by 9 a.m.

Foreign home ownership in Metro Vancouver has been a hot topic for years, with many owners, politicians and realtors citing buyers from outside the country as one of the main reasons prices in the region are so high.

A 54-year-old North Vancouver woman died after her SUV skidded off the road and slid 10 metres (30 feet) down an embankment Tuesday morning, say North Vancouver RCMP.

The life of North Shore Rescue member and BC Ambulance paramedic Jay Piggot was celebrated Monday afternoon by friends, family, teammates and members of the public at a memorial service at the Capilano Rugby Club. photos Lisa King

An incoming storm may create Christmas conditions that would satisfy Bing Crosby in some North Shore neighbourhoods.

A citizens group appointed by council to come up with recommendations for a new tree cutting bylaw in West Vancouver expects to present its preferred options by the end of March.

Her name was always going to be Ava. Before she was born Ava’s parents, Bonnie and Jay Powell, spent every Thanksgiving touring vineyards in the Okanagan.

Dismount no longer required at crosswalks