Local News

YWCA Metro Vancouver is excited to announce that its youth program is expanding its reach and is now inviting Grade 7 students from across the Lower Mainland to register for weekly online sessions starting in November.

A 45-year-old Richmond woman reported to have gone mising has been located, according to Richmond RCMP. Yuen Ying Eileen Lee was last seen on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 12:30 p.m. and was reported to have been missing on Oct. 4.

Editor: I’d like to know who the ding-dong was who decided it was a good idea to put scent into hand sanitizers? Not just an ordinary scent, either - it’s an atomic scent. It’s a scent you can’t wash off with ordinary soap and water.

A Burnaby homeowner is lucky to still have their house after firefighters managed to contain flames from spreading late Saturday/early Sunday morning. At midnight, Burnaby firefighters were called to 3717 Elmwood St.

B.C. Ferry Services Inc. breached the collective agreement with its unionized employees when it temporarily laid off more than 1,000 workers in early April due to the pandemic, according to an arbitrator. It is now up to the B.C.

A women’s advisory committee would give Richmond the opportunity to examine city policies and planning through “the lens of a woman,” according to one city councillor.

There have been 16 new COVID-19 cases detected in Richmond in the past week (Sept. 24 to Oct. 1), bringing the total to 271 since the start of the pandemic.

Fraser Health Public Health has closed Valhalla Distribution/MSJ Distribution, a distribution centre located at 7848 Hoskins Street in Delta following an outbreak of COVID-19 among staff working at the facility.

Alpine butterflies are sensitive to temperature and are being significantly affected by climate change. Scientists say now is the time to double down on monitoring them

Almost 500,000 people have registered for mail-in ballots since the Oct. 24 provincial election was called a week and a half ago. According to Elections B.C.