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Its one thing to give a friend the shirt off your back, quite another to give them the kidney out of your abdomen but thats what Jenny Jarvenpaa aims to do.

A movement to halt the installation of the controversial BC Hydro Smart Meters was set to gather pace Tuesday night at Richmond City Hall.

City council needs more leadership, according to the only challenger thus far to Malcolm Brodies mayoral reign.

For more than 20 years, residents of Metro Vancouver's northeast sector have watched as a long-promised rapid transit system for their area has been ignored in favour of extensions to SkyTrain and the construction of the Canada Line.

The AlarmRecycle program began this month to encourage British Columbians to recycle old smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms and combination alarms at facilities across the province, free of charge.

Riding my bike down Westminster Highway to the Sharing Farm at Terra Nova for the garlic festival on 14 August, I passed Gibbons Drive.

Angela, 28, is a former prostitute and drug addict who gets weekly help from the Heart of Richmond AIDS Society. She credits the nonprofit organization for being a lifeline for her and her 11-month-old daughter.

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What female baby boomer can forget Steel Magnolias, the blockbuster 1989 movie about the heartwarming friendship between six strong Southern ladies? Or the cemetery scene when Sally Fields, who played the mother of the dying Shelby Eatenton (Julia Ro

When I learned I'd be snowshoeing for the first time, it'd be fair to say I was struggling to delve deep into my shallow well of knowledge of this odd winter pastime.