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A dramatic summer lightning storm stranded about 300 people at the top of Grouse Mountain on Tuesday night.

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STRANGELY, in British slang, calling something "pants" means it is terrible, while "dog's bollocks" means it is excellent. The television show Big Brother is pants, you might say, if you're not a fan of things that are excruciatingly boring.

THE City of North Vancouver's newly released annual report is chock full of municipal achievements in everything from voter turnout to greenhouse gas reduction.

WEST Vancouver police are wagging their fingers at some lead-footed luxury car owners after they pulled over a 'pack' of four Porsches on the Sea to Sky corridor. The cars, they say, were going as much as 50 kilometres per hour over the limit.

A North Vancouver man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly dousing an acquaintance with camping fuel and setting him on fire during an alcoholfuelled argument on the weekend.

POLICE have arrested a man suspected of setting a North Vancouver supermarket on fire last month. Investigators were called to the Save-On-Foods at 1250 Marine Drive around 2 a.m.

THE bad news just keeps accumulating for Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, and there's little to suggest that pattern is going to change in their favour anytime soon.

Knit, Stitch & Share: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council invites the public to a gallery knit-in and workshop at CityScape Community Art Space on Thursday, Aug. 16, 79 p.m.

IT may not be sexy, but companies that hauled garbage, paved roads, laid turf and fixed sewer lines were among those that made good money doing business with local governments last year.