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The new IKEA Richmond store has announced its opening day. The 334,000 square foot store on Jacombs Road adjacent to the current building on Sweden Way in the Bridgeport area will open on April 25.

The City of Richmonds pilot public spaces recycling program has reduced beverage containers found in the waste stream by 27 per cent.

Richmond artist Margaret Dragu has been named as one of the eight winners of the 2012 Governor General's Awards. The $25,000 award recognizes career achievement in the visual and media arts by Canadian artists.

A 26-year-old man has become the latest Richmondite to face charges of taking part in last year's infamous Stanley Cup riot. Reneil Anand Kumar was formally charged Thursday with participating in a riot and mischief.

Lower Mainland motorists were dealt a seven-cent-a-litre shock in gasoline prices Friday as the market absorbed a double whammy of higher oil prices and a regional refinery shutdown. Gasoline prices jumped overnight in the Lower Mainland to $1.

A Richmond senior who is serving a term of life in prison for slitting the throat of her friend is under RCMP investigation again, the B.C. Court of Appeal was told Friday.

Two of Richmond's biggest festivals are set to join forces this summer. The inaugural Ships to Shore event last year will return in late June and culminate with the Steveston Salmon Festival on July 1.

Author gives budding writers tips to get published

Before it got better, life for David Levitt, a gay 15-year-old from Richmond, got so bad he tried to hang himself with strings from his brother's guitar.

More than 500 students, teachers, retired teachers and administrators from the Richmond School District danced in perfect harmony all in the name of the Fifth Annual Pink Shirt Anti-Bullying Day, Wednesday, Feb. 29.