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Cities brace for climate shift

Rising sea levels combined with volatile and intense storms provide a challenge for B.C. coastal municipalities, but its a challenge they say they are meeting head on.

Psychiatric patient on loose after Richmond visit

A psychiatric patient has gone missing after a day-visit to his brothers Richmond home. A Canada-wide warrant has now been issued for the arrest of Kurt Derksen, 58 a patient at the Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam.

Cycling champion hopes to inspire Richmond students

Ben Chaddock will talk to McNair Grade 8 to 10s about his biking success, experiences

Adult illiteracy prevalent in Richmond

New program launched by library hopes to better assess need and cause

Skating in Richmond to fundraise for kids abroad

Magdalen Leung paused as she took a moment to compose herself while telling the emotional story of the first time she visited an orphanage in South Africa.

YVR unveils new banners

The trip to Vancouver International Airport will soon be paved with dynamic banners along Grant McConachie Way, the departures and arrivals ramps and throughout the airports parkade.

Locals urged to pick their green carts

In a bid to deal with a future ban on food scraps in landfill sites, the City of Richmond will expand its green cart program next spring.

Nurturing generation of leaders

By youth and for youth is the motto behind the launch of the new Metro Vancouver Young Leaders Community Council, the brainchild of credit union giant Coast Capital Savings.

Richmond approves near three per cent property tax increase

Homeowners in Richmond will pay an extra 2.98 per cent in property taxes next year. City council formally approved the 2013 operating budget, which included the tax increase, one of the lowest in the Lower Mainland.

Regional charity fundraises through Richmond community centre

The mere mention of Christmas brings to mind valuable gifts, nourishing foods and caring for each other.