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The RCMP is warning the public to not pay any taxes with Bitcoin after another North Vancouver resident lost $6000 to a Bitcoin tax scam last month. In Richmond, there have been very few cases involving Bitcoin so far.

The VPD issued a statement this afternoon regarding a stolen truck that they’d found.. in the water at Kits Beach. A passerby spotted tire marks in the sand near the basketball courts and called police.

A random quick pick ticket has resulted in a major windfall for a Tsawwassen couple. Christina Sevenoaks and her husband Tim are $7 million richer after matching all six numbers (11, 12, 19, 24, 28 and 46) in the March 28 BC Lotto 6/49 draw.

Health Canada has updated the list of uncertified USB chargers that pose an “unacceptable risk of electric shock and fire” today.

Twenty-three-year-old was crossing at East 12th Avenue and Clark Drive

Former Richmond MLA and B.C.’s first environment minister, Jim Nielsen, has died. Reports say Nielsen died on Wednesday morning in New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital. He was aged 79.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be welcomed to Vancouver by anti-pipeline protesters on Thursday.

A police standoff in Vancouver’s West End has ended peacefully. Just after 8 p.m. Wednesday officers arrested a 34-year-old Vancouver man who had been holed up in a Beach Avenue residence for more than 12 hours. At around 4 a.m.

Yesterday, on the first day of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls hearings in Richmond, commissioners, family members and witnesses called for a change in how Indigenous history is shared.

Metro Vancouver board chair Greg Moore says they "missed the mark" on remuneration bylaw