Highlights

Social housing wait-list grows 27 per cent in Metro Vancouver

Homelessness is up 33 per cent since 2020 and 122 per cent since 2005, even as more supportive housing is being built.

Dec 22, 2023 4:08 PM Read more >

YVR warns of increased traffic near the airport on Boxing Day

Shoppers and travellers may want to take public transport in case of traffic jams.

Dec 22, 2023 4:00 PM Read more >

Two outreach workers to be hired in Richmond to help homeless

Five tents were counted at Brighouse Park, including three inside the lacrosse box nearby

Dec 22, 2023 3:00 PM Read more >

BCCDC alerts parents to high cases of severe Strep A infections

Children are particularly vulnerable to invasive group A streptococcal, says the BC Centre for Disease Control

Dec 22, 2023 2:20 PM Read more >

Canadian death toll in cantaloupe salmonella outbreak rises to seven

The Public Health Agency of Canada says if people have fresh or frozen cantaloupe at home and they are unsure what brand the fruit is, they should throw it out and wash their hands.

Dec 22, 2023 2:08 PM Read more >

B.C. child sex offender who fled halfway house may plead guilty

“I don’t want to push Mr. Hopley to say he’s pleading guilty,” Judge Nancy Adams said.

Dec 22, 2023 1:02 PM Read more >

B.C. parcel-delivery company UniUni raises US$20M

Fast-growing venture touts 'hundredfold' revenue growth in past few years

Dec 22, 2023 12:30 PM Read more >

$16,000 in merchandise confiscated in Richmond shoplifting bust

Richmond RCMP say they're conducting extra enforcement during the holiday season.

Dec 22, 2023 12:30 PM Read more >

B.C. tribunal says it has no role to police strata garden waste in trash bin

The man who brought the complaint no longer owns a unit in the strata.

Dec 22, 2023 12:00 PM Read more >

Letters: I got lectured on the housing crisis when complaining about suites

Richmond News reader said secondary suites were built without permits

Dec 22, 2023 11:00 AM Read more >