North Vancouver, Canada News

Monique Boutellier with her tapestry Northern Gateway Pipeline Proposal on display at CityScape Community Art Space as part of the 2013 Capilano University Textile Arts Grad Show.

On March 22 the love of my life got down on one knee, at the North Vancouver restaurant where we had our first date, and asked me to be his wife.

The Fraser Surrey Docks, shown here, are under the jurisdiction of Port Metro Vancouver, which will decide whether or not to approve a proposal to expand coal exports to four million tonnes annually.

Courts in session - On a sunny Victoria Day, Lot 5's new volleyball courts are ready for players.

A North Vancouver con man who tried to derail a fraud investigation against him by posing as a police officer to foreign banking officials has managed to get four convictions of impersonation overturned by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Five Love Languages: A program based on the book by Dr. Gary Chapman for those interested in improving their relationship with others Wednesdays, May 22-June 5, 7 p.m. at West Vancouver Baptist Church, 450 Mathers Ave.

WHEN they immigrated to Canada from the Philippines more than a decade ago, it was a family connection that initially drew Alvin Koh Relleve and his wife to the area.

THE Phibbs Exchange in Seylynn is some bus riders' first experience of North Vancouver.

Two home owners and an arborist in North Vancouver have been charged with illegally cutting down trees in a North Vancouver park to improve their views.

THE lawyer for a North Shore man who stole cigarettes from London Drugs during the June 2011 Stanley Cup riot is asking a judge to let his client off without a criminal record.

Election signs in North Vancouver on May 13, 2013, ahead of the provincial election.

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.

Brad Deering, 42, was shot outside his home in Escazu, near the capital San Jose, Costa Rican police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

Vegetables will be the name of the game on 'Meatless Monday" as Vancouverites are urged to go vegetarian on June 10 to educate people about how going meat-free can reduce their carbon footprint, minimize water usage, cut down on fossil fuel dependence as well as improve their health.

North Vancouver piano teacher Natasha Wakaruk is heading to Scotland this week to compete in the Edinburgh Half Marathon as a Team Diabetes member.

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.