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IT may still be several weeks before investigators know the identity of the body found last weekend in North Vancouver's Lower Capilano neighbourhood, according to police. The remains, discovered Aug.

A single mother and her kids have been left homeless after a North Vancouver house fire that police are calling suspicious.

Warm weather, time off, swimming, being with friends and family; everyone is relieved when the season arrives. Yet there have been proposals for an alternative to this tradition since agrarian times.

- Alexandria Maillot, part of the Cates Park Concert Series, presented by Musart, Saturday, Aug. 25, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Cates Park in North Vancouver. Free. Info: www.musart.ca.

DR. Christian Steidl believes that by mapping cancer's genes, he can find the keys to the disease's undoing. Now, thanks to an award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Medical Research, he may just have the money to do it.

A home on Squamish Nation lands in North Vancouver was leveled Thursday night in what police are calling a suspicious fire. The blaze broke out some time before 8:30 p.

STEVE Williams shows off his original condition 1957 Chevrolet B.C. Ambulance, which will be among the vehicles on display at the 11th Annual North Shore Antique/Collector Car Show, Sunday, Aug.

NORTH Shore First Nations will pit canoes against supertankers Sept. 1 as they ratchet up their opposition to an oil pipeline expansion planned for the Burrard Inlet.

THE bolt-from-the-blue announcement by newspaper mogul David Black that he wants to build a $13-billion oil refinery near Kitimat may be hailed by some as a game changer for the proposed Enbridge pipeline project, but a more accurate description may

FOR this column I'll need to tread carefully, because I don't want any of my readers stabbing themselves with a butter knife or throwing themselves in front of a SkyTrain in response to the subject I've chosen.