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Richmond City Council approved a new Official Community Plan (OCP) at a public hearing on Monday evening. With the title, "Moving Towards Sustainability", the new OCP sets the framework for Richmond's future development to 2041.

Each winter tens of thousands of white snow geese descend upon western Richmond. With a cacophony of honking, they root through local schoolyards and parks leaving the areas devoid of vegetation but full of mud and feces.

The lawyer for a minor league hockey coach who infamously tripped a 13-year-old Richmond boy last summer during a postgame handshake will be arguing for a non-custodial sentence when his client appears for sentencing in January.

Lawyers for two Richmond brothers, accused of gay-bashing in an assault against two men in East Vancouver, argued in court Tuesday against allowing the testimony of individuals who identified one of the accused in a surveillance photo.

Rural park given innovation nod

The second Richmond Celebrates Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada has been set for the new Family Day holiday next February.

Theres nothing new about bullying, but the consequences seem to have become more dire as the act no longer stays within the schoolyard, but extends to the 24-hour world of social media.

Christmas arrives early this year: the BC SPCA Richmond Education & Adoption Centre offers a 50 per cent discount on all feline adoption fees, encouraging residents to take care of kittens and adult cats in need for a warm home.

It seems like, for the time being at least, Richmond is paying the price for the success of the entire Lower Mainlands food waste recycling programs.

The City of Richmond may wait until a legal challenge is cleared up in Toronto before deciding on whether to ban shark fin products.