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Reporter Michelle Hopkins gets tips to avoid the number one killer of women

Vancouver Canucks forward Mason Raymond laces up his skates at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Monday to launch this year's Scotiabank Group Charity Challenge and mark the countdown to the 14th Annual Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon and 5K on June 24

Richmond's teachers will join 41,000 of their B.C. colleagues on Monday when they walk out on a three-day strike. The teachers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the all-out strike amid anger over wages, benefits, class size and composition.

Dr. Orenstein gives preventative tips for the number one killer of Canadian women

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.