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Two cases have been confirmed at the hospital as of Tuesday 11 a.m.

While health authorities grapple with COVID-19 outbreaks at food processing facilities across the Lower Mainland, similar operations in Richmond appear to have side-stepped that particular landmine.

Richmond RCMP is advising people not to pursue suspected criminals, after the owner of a broken-into vehicle was allegedly bear-sprayed. At around 2:15 p.m.

The family has had a GoFundMe campaign set up in its name to help cover the costs of a funeral following a crash in which their infant boy was killed after being ejected from the car.

Pedestrians are being given a wide berth along the waterfront of Steveston Village to practise physical distancing. The City of Richmond has put in temporary on-street walking and cycling on the south side of Bayview Street between No.

One person was taken to hospital following a fire Monday night in New Westminster. Firefighters were called out at around 8:30 p.m. to a townhouse complex at 111 Wood St. and South Dyke Rd in Queensborough.

Some parents of North Vancouver students are feeling overwhelmed with trying to help their kids through online schooling while others say their kids are bored and are asking for more from the schools.

A Nanaimo man stung at least seven times by Asian giant hornets likens it to having “red-hot thumbtacks being driven into the flesh,” while another Island man compares a sting to being hit in the chest.

COVID-19 is affecting procedures at Richmond City Hall – both who makes presentations to council and how development applications are handled.

Around 900 City of Richmond staff have been temporarily laid off and another 50 have been “redeployed” to cope with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.