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With only one day that didn’t see rain or snow and over 250 mm of precipitation, this past January is one of the wettest on record at YVR over the past eight decades.

It couldn’t have come at a worse time. Lunar New Year, which began Jan. 25, usually has Richmond’s Asian restaurants packed for a week as friends and families gather to celebrate the annual festival.

Environment Canada is calling for a 60 per cent chance of flurries or rain showers on Sunday with a high of five and a low of zero. This means it may be hard for the groundhog to see his shadow this year – which is a good thing.

A Richmond teen is making a plea to the community to keep an eye out for her support dog, who has been missing since Thursday evening.

Following the run on surgical masks at pharmacies throughout Richmond earlier in the week, a man has been spotted selling them from the trunk of a vehicle at two Richmond mall parking lots.

A Richmond man who pleaded guilty to smuggling Chinese migrants into Canada has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Michael Kong was sentenced Friday morning at Richmond Provincial Court.

Police are asking for witnesses to a car crash which shut down a section of Steveston Highway last week to come forward.

Conservation officers and animal welfare advocates are urging the public to be careful about their garbage after an orphaned bear cub was captured in a residential area of North Vancouver and taken to a wildlife rehabilitation centre recently.

Regional mayors have come up with a proposal to allow ride-hailing businesses to have one license for the entire Lower Mainland, allowing them to pick up and drop off anywhere in the region, something the taxi industry can’t do at this time.

The novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV is thought to have made the jump to humans in a Wuhan seafood market, where live, wild animals are kept in close proximity with food.