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A young black bear caught some attention in a North Vancouver city neighbourhood on Saturday after deciding a backyard chicken coop made a nice pic-a-nic basket and helped himself to a meal of two hens.

A 17-year-old West Vancouver longboarder is in intensive care after sustaining critical head injuries in a collision with a passenger van driven by a friend Friday evening.

THE Vancouver Police Department is investigating after a 61-year-old woman from North Vancouver was killed by a West Vancouver transit bus on the Stanley Park causeway Saturday evening. The accident happened shortly before 7 p.m.

THE death of courtesy has been a long time coming, but come it has. And social media is one of its assassins. Why can't the wonderfully witty Miss Manners (a.k.a.

District of North Vancouver Regular council meeting, Monday, May 27, 7 p.m. dnv.org Reports: ? OCP amendment: Edgemont seniors living. ? Risk-based fire inspection frequency initiative. ? 2670 Lloyd Avenue, Turning Point Recovery Home.

LOSING a beloved pet can be heartbreaking, but planning ahead for the inevitable may help ease the difficult transition when the time comes. One way to prepare is to tour a pet memorial facility so future decisions can be made calmly and clearly.

Hiking: Tuesdays throughout the year and Thursdays, May-October from the West Vancouver Seniors' Activity Centre, 695 21st St. Tuesday hikes are four to five hours and eight-14 kilometres and Thursday hikes are about six-nine hours and 12-25 km.

THE FOLLOWING is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.

A retired West Vancouver police constable has been found reportedly murdered in Mexico. Lynn Earle, 60, was apparently found stabbed to death in her home in Playa del Carmen, a popular town on Mexico's Mayan Riviera.