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GARDENING on a budget? No problem. There are plenty of options to help beautify your yard inexpensively.

City Park Rehabilitation Project: All are welcome to help remove invasive plants Saturday, March 24, 9 a.m.-noon. Meet in the cul-de-sac of Fell Avenue and 17th Street, North Vancouver. Refreshments, tools and gloves will be provided.

Being hired to demolish the submarines in the West Edmonton Malls defunct undersea excursion is one of the oddest jobs North Vancouver-based All Sea Enterprises has been hired for, said Matt Bone, senior surface engineer.

Plan would put levy on cars or tax gas to help fund regional system

"The Urban Development Institute - Pacific (UDI) is the premier industry body that represents the interests of British Columbia's leading residential, commercial, industrial and institutional developers.

Less than 10 months after launching a fundraising campaign, the backers of Lions Gate Hospitals new psychiatric facility have met their $25-million target. The plan now, they say, is to keep on going.

A move by the province to ban youth from using tanning beds has touched off a debate among the North Shore's tanning studio owners as to who should be responsible for deciding when teens can tan.

NORTH Vancouver RCMP are looking for a mystery caller whose garbled message to 9-1-1 triggered a massive, and ultimately fruitless, search of Mount Seymour last week. The call came around 4: 30 p.m.

A North Vancouver father will have his day in the highest court of the land on Thursday.

A garbled and brief 9-1-1 call had North Shore Rescue volunteers mobilized and fanned out over Mount Seymour Friday afternoon, but the woman who made the call could not be found.