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ICBC: road safety during winter holiday

ICBC: road safety during winter holiday

With the winter holidays here, ICBC is telling drivers to take more caution when driving on the roads. According to ICBC, there are 2,000 crashes resulting in 530 people getting injured in B.C. every year during Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
VIDEO: Watch these dunlin dance on the 'Bay

VIDEO: Watch these dunlin dance on the 'Bay

Twitter and YouTube user Pacificnorthwestkate shared a video yesterday showcasing quite a performance by dunlin on Boundary Bay. A large number of birds are seen flying in the video with a peregrine falcon "conducting" the show.
Let it snow: Vancouver forecast calls for chance of flurries on Christmas Day

Let it snow: Vancouver forecast calls for chance of flurries on Christmas Day

While it may have seemed like a longshot, the Vancouver weather forecast is calling for a chance of snow on Christmas Day. Environment Canada calls for rain on Friday, Dec. 20 with a high of 8 ° C and a low 4 ° C.
Update: Contractors left gas on at Richmond apartment, causing explosion: report

Update: Contractors left gas on at Richmond apartment, causing explosion: report

Workers installing a fireplace in a Steveston apartment complex last summer caused a gas leak which resulted in an explosion and fire, damaging four suites, according to an incident report by Technical Safety B.C. (TSBC).
Update: Richmond council allows medical cannabis facility

Update: Richmond council allows medical cannabis facility

Richmond city council voted in favour of a new medical cannabis facility Wednesday. The application for the facility — located at 23000 Fraserwood Way near Hamilton Road — first came to council in January, when it was opposed by Coun.
Richmond woman, 20, experienced hallucinations from 'laughing gas' misuse: report

Richmond woman, 20, experienced hallucinations from 'laughing gas' misuse: report

An emergency physician at Richmond Hospital is now warning of the drug’s dangers and lack of reporting
Richmond man facing multiple sex offence charges

Richmond man facing multiple sex offence charges

A Richmond man has been charged with a catalogue of sex offences against vulnerable women and females in the sex trade. Earlier this week, the BC Prosecution Service approved 14 charges against 49-year-old Satvir Singh Sanghera.
Richmond condo leaseholders forced to pay $40,000 each for renos

Richmond condo leaseholders forced to pay $40,000 each for renos

Many of them claim they could end up homeless after their landlord hit them with the massive bill
Car2go will have fewer vehicles on the road in Vancouver before exit date

Car2go will have fewer vehicles on the road in Vancouver before exit date

On Wednesday, Share Now, the company formerly known as Car2go, announced that it would be shutting down service in North America .
How to get through YVR in one piece during the holiday season?

How to get through YVR in one piece during the holiday season?

YVR has travel trips to get passengers through the airport hassle-free over the busy holiday season.