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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.

Councillors in the City of North Vancouver have approved a new coach house proposal that includes several major departures from their existing guidelines.

THE Canadian Avalanche Centre has rated avalanche risk at high in the North Shore mountains Tuesday.