Local News

WVPD's Prince George incident review wraps up after 5 months

To celebrate this year's Word on the Street Sept. 23-25 we are giving away two nonfiction works by authors connected with the West Coast. Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk explores the Pine Beetle epidemic ravaging B.C.

Sept. 6 Steig Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (paperback). Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra(pb). A.S. Byatt - Ragnarok: The End of the Gods. Sept. 13 Alexandra Fuller - Cocktail under the Tree of Forgetfulness. Guy Vanderhaeghe - A Good Man.

EMPIRE ESPLANADE 6 200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver 604-983-2762 Drive (18A) - Fri, Mon-Thur 7: 30, 10; Sat-Sun 1: 20, 4: 10, 7: 30, 10 p.m. Straw Dogs - Fri, Mon-Thur 7: 15, 9: 50; Sat-Sun 12: 50, 3: 45, 7: 15, 9: 50 p.m.

Japan Airlines fifth to be hit with lawsuit over hidden ticket fees

On Friday, a pedestrian in her teens was running to catch a bus on Marine Drive near 14th Street when she stepped into the path of a Jeep Cherokee, according to police. The impact threw the 15year-old up over the hood and on to the windshield.

DNV council lobbies province to expand deposit-refund system

Highways To Fairways debuts locally on Chek TV at 7 p.m. Saturdays, and plays on TVtropolis and Fox Sports World Canada networks. YOU don't need to be a scratch golfer to enjoy the new golf travel show Highways To Fairways.

- Mustang Boss 302, by Donald Farr, Motorbooks, 160 pages, $33.00. WITH a guttural roar the Boss 302 Mustang rolled off the assembly line in April of 1969.

HERE we go again. After almost getting itself above water on the fiscal front, the B.C. Liberal government now finds itself once again mired in a financial quagmire.