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Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and WestJet’s COVID-19 rapid test pilot project – the first of its kind in Canada – has officially taken off.

A group of Richmond citizens is continuing their fight against a dense development in the Capstan area, the Polygon Talisman Park project. A parcel of consolidated properties at Cambie and Garden City roads is working its way through at city hall.

A Richmond man has been permanently barred from practising law as part of a crackdown by the Law Society of BC. Li Xin Cheng, also known as Clint Cheng, and company Princemountain Transnational Services Inc.

Public transit users are now being told to wear masks while boarding or waiting for transit at any indoor or sheltered stations and stops. The change comes as a result of the B.C. government’s order mandating mask use earlier this week.

The City of Richmond is switching its animal shelter and control contractor from no-kill charity RAPS back to the BC SPCA.

Richmond council is systematically getting rid of an old zoning tool – called “land use contracts” - that make it hard to adapt to changing needs and tastes. Six land-use contract (LUC) properties will be part of a public hearing on Dec. 14.

Christmas presents belong under the tree and not in the hands of thieves is the message the Richmond RCMP is telling residents as they shop for the holiday.

Newly elected Richmond-Steveston MLA Kelly Greene was named parliamentary secretary of the environment. Greene will support Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, George Heyman, who is MLA for Vancouver-Fairview.

A new report points to how family obligations in the first months of the pandemic had a disproportionate impact on women in the province.

Friends of an elderly mother and son from Richmond have launched a GoFundMe page after the pair lost everything in a house fire earlier this month. On the afternoon of Nov.