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VIVIAN Vaughan, former councillor and mayoral candidate in the District of West Vancouver, testified in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday as part of David Marley's defamation lawsuit against Peter Kains.

The 15-year-old was hiking back from the mountain's first peak with classmates just before noon Thursday when she lost her footing.

The Prince George Mounties who tasered an 11-year-old boy last spring acted within the bounds of the law, according to the West Vancouver police who investigated the incident. West Vancouver Chief Const.

Police are looking for a man they say attempted to lure two children into his car in different parts of West Vancouver yesterday. The man, in his 40s, pulled up next to a student near Gleneagles elementary at about 7:50 a.m.

OR, with apologies to poet Lewis Carroll: Of mobs and beds and deficits; of photo-ops and swings. Over the years, analysts have theorized that Carroll's narrative poems were, in fact, political commentary.

WV philanthropist Djavad Mowafaghian thanks hospital staff for his stroke recovery

Musicians Wanted: The West Vancouver Concert Band, an adult band for brass, wind and drum instruments is looking for new members. They practise Mondays (September to June) from 8 to 9: 45 p.m. at the West Vancouver Community Centre, 2121 Marine Dr.

MONDAY was the first day of arguments in a lawsuit filed by an unsuccessful 2009 provincial election candidate who claims he was defamed during a debate in Edgemont Village. David Marley, who ran as an independent against incumbent B.C.

Task force awaits new council in 2012