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$200,000 allocated to salmon play and Chinese books

Eleven-year-old Chris Wong might possibly be the youngest Android phone app developer in North America. Chris, who is in Grade 5 at Brighouse elementary, spent less than three hours to create the BukLau Soundboard app.

The City of Richmond will tonight (Wednesday) be showing off a play-park designed by children for Terra Nova Rural Park. The open house at Thompson Community Centre, running 5-8: 30 p.m.

An RCMP negotiator was called in Monday night to deal with a suicidal woman who was threatening to jump off the No.2 Road Bridge. Around 7 p.m., the police sealed off the bridge that connects No.

Eleven-year-old Chris Wong might possibly be the youngest Android phone app developer in North America. Chris, who is in Grade 5 at Brighouse elementary, spent less than three hours to create the BukLau Soundboard App.

Two fast-thinking girls beat out 50 other teams from around the world to walk away with a gold in this years Destination ImagiNation Global Finals instant challenge category at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

If you thought you saw a boatload of beauties floating down the Fraser River Monday in fact, you did.

After months of sifting through more than 1,500 applications from around the world, Tourism Richmond announced that Vancouverite Lindsay Anderson won the coveted Richmond Foodie Blogger job.

More than $4.5 million was left over in 2011 City of Richmond tax dollars but it will all be plowed straight back into one-time funding projects. The citys annual surplus appropriation went before councils finance committee Monday with a total of $4.