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City council at odds over nods to volunteers

SHOULD a volunteer who spends six consecutive years on the North Vancouver recreation commission receive a lifetime pass in recognition of their service? That was the question debated by the City of North Vancouver's council Dec. 12.

Setting it straight

A Dec. 30 news article entitled "Hit the Slopes in Style this season" referred to Swiss Sports Haus employee Fayme Hodal as the owner. Hodal is in fact the store's buyer.

Vandals cut Internet to thousands

5,400 homes left without service after bridge cable severed

Mounties warn boat owners after theft from marina

North Shore boaters are being encouraged to check on their fishing gear after RCMP officers caught a man stealing equipment from a boat moored at the Mosquito Creek marina.

Work starts on Lions Gate Hospital revamp

Annex demolished to make way for new mental health centre

Better Business Bureau warns consumers about popular scams

The Better Business Bureau is hoping consumers will learn a lesson from past mistakes. The organization is publicizing a list of scams to watch for in 2012 showing how scammers use misrepresentation to gain trust. Brand spoofing Brand spoofing (a.k.

Looking back in anger, among other things

STEPHEN Harper's re-election the media's choice of biggest Canadian story of 2011? Wow, that stirs the blood. My list: No. 1 Horror Story: The Whistler sled dog massacre.

A hard right turn onto a rocky road

THE federal government's decidedly right-ward shift has some potentially big implications for British Columbia and whichever party forms the next government here.

Correction

A story in the Dec. 30 issue on illegal suites in the City of North Vancouver incorrectly reported that Coun.

Missing North Vancouver man had had brushes with police

NORTH Vancouver RCMP are asking for the publics help to find a 26-year-old man whose disappearance they are calling unusual. Seyed Merhdad Nourbakhsh-Saleh was last seen by his family at about 4 p.m. on Dec.