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Writers Fran Bourassa and Aislinn Hunter will read some of their poetry at the Seymour Art Gallery on Sunday, May 19 as part of the book launch for Mother Tongue's new anthology Force Field.

Carmen Lee models a dress by Toronto designer Marika Brose, made entirely of Cashmere-brand toilet paper Saturday at Save-On-Foods Pemberton Plaza in North Vancouver.

John Guenther looks over a city map in his office. He stepped down as the City of Revelstoke's Director of Planning this week.

Planned route of coal barges from Fraser Surrey Docks' proposed direct transfer coal export terminal to a transhipment point on Texada Island, where coal would be loaded onto ocean-going ships.

The current vogue for using high-tech wood products as a green building material has spawned a flurry of proposals for "timber towers." But some new concrete low-rise projects in the Vancouver area seem to be going against the grain.

The Volkswagen Touareg, available with a nifty diesel engine, stacks up well against luxury SUVs without the same sticker shock.

NAOMI Yamamoto hugs her father Tuesday evening as voting results show her edging ahead of NDP challenger Craig Keating and holding her seat as the MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale. AS pundits and journalists autopsy the unexpected big win by the B.C. Liberals in the 2013 election, the North Shore's candidates are reflecting on hard-fought campaigns ... (more)

The motion came after university President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Kris Bulcroft tabled a recommendation to the board to delay the decision until the next board meeting on June 11 to allow the senate additional time to review the budget to overcome the university's $1.3 million shortfall.

Mark Bradwell was born in Nanaimo on May 11, 1923. He worked as an electrical engineer until his retirement.

A proposal for deep cuts at Capilano University was put on hold Tuesday night after the board of governors decided to delay a vote on next year's budget until June 11.

Incumbent B.C. Liberal MLA Naomi Yamamoto makes a victory speech atop a chair Tuesday night at the Grouse Inn.

I am responding to the May 1 letter from Couns. Alan Nixon and Guy Heywood, Our Nasty P3: Paying for the Poop Plant.

Two campers found crushed under a fallen boulder the "size of a bear" Monday have been identified as Trevor Norman, 49, and his daughter Zarah, 10, of North Vancouver.

A cyclist passes a series of election signs in North Vancouver on Monday. A cyclist passes a series of election signs in North Vancouver on Monday.

By Todd Coyne - North Shore Outlook Published: May 13, 2013 4:00 PM Updated: May 13, 2013 5:06 PM A tragic accident on Blackcomb Mountain has taken the lives of a 49-year-old North Vancouver man and his 10-year-old daughter on Mother's Day weekend.

Jamie Porter longboards down Inter River Road in the District of North Vancouver on a quiet summer Saturday in 2010.

Hair stylist to the Bollywood stars Dilshad Pastakia recently left the bustling metropolis of Mumbai and set up shop at Mira Studios in North Vancouver.

When she was a little girl, Gina Hole Lazarowich went door to door with her mother campaigning for the Liberal Party.

When residents in a working-class suburb of Liverpool, England, heard that one of their own, Chris "Bunce" Thomas, was laid up in a Vancouver hospital bed, they sprung into action with an ambitious scheme to load him onto a specially equipped medical jet and take him home to mother.

CNV Mayor Darrell Mussatto welcomes Canada's most famous hockey dad, Walter Gretzky, to the Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier on May 6. Gretzky was a keynote speaker at a kickoff event held in North Vancouver to launch North American Occupational Health and Safety Week, and spoke about his own workplace injury that left him temporarily in coma.