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Cold beer and wine sellers see sales slide with new laws

A court battle has erupted over millions of dollars in the estate of murdered West Vancouver businessman Gang Yuan, with a lawyer for the victim’s family suggesting a dispute about money may have played a role in Yuan’s killing.

Two greenhorn hikers are lucky to be alive after being plucked from the rugged mountains by North Shore Rescue Tuesday night. West Vancouver police alerted the team around 8:35 p.m.

Youth joins Greenpeace voyage to Haida Gwaii

Artists Unframed by Merry A. Foresta. Princeton Architectural Press, 160 pages, $33.50. The snapshot records a moment in time quite differently from a portrait photograph.

Artist Xwalachtun and MLA Naomi Yamamoto light the flame for the 55+ B.C. Games, Thursday morning at Shipbuilders’ Square. The City and District of North Vancouver will host the Games Aug. 25-29.

Dogwood Initiative commissioned a new poll that shows New Democrats in the lead for new Burnaby riding

West Vancouver police are looking for a suspect who decided the best thing to do after getting into a car accident was run off into the bushes. Investigators were called to the Highway 1 onramp at Taylor Way just after 8:30 p.m.

For the second time in two months, the West Vancouver SPCA is sheltering a chicken in need of a home — this one deliberately abandoned.

West Vancouver MP John Weston broke party ranks in the House of Commons last week, being the only Conservative to vote in favour of an NDP private member’s bill on derelict vessels. “Obviously it’s a rare occurrence . . .