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Drivers and pedestrians heading along Marine Drive at Park Royal this week noticed construction crews tearing out the median, along with the chain link fence, trees and shrubs. The move has rankled and confused some West Vancouver residents.

District of West Vancouver council is enacting a host of new policies to make sure old growth trees are never inadvertently cut down again, as happened with a recent Black Creek infrastructure project.

A number of people in the Persian community are angry and upset after having their accounts at Toronto Dominion Bank frozen or closed for alleged violations of Canada's economic sanctions against Iran.

The West Vancouver Streamkeepers Society has made a deal with the District of West Vancouver to install an ambitious salmon habitat project in the community's Memorial Park.

A public forum to discuss the possible end of TransLink's TaxiSaver program will be held in North Vancouver next week.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly poaching fish from the Capilano River Hatchery. North Vancouver RCMP were called to the facility around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after someone tripped the security alarm.

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Supreme Court suit alleges 20 years of inappropriate treatment in workplace