Community groups across B.C. are calling for changes to how the province oversees supportive housing projects. As Brady Strachan reports, many residents say ...

The BC Conservatives are promising to support people who "pose a risk to themselves and others" through involuntary treatment.

Tents go down, tents go up, it's quite the dance

The latest public opinion survey suggests the Conservative Party of BC is leading ahead of the BC NDP, just one week before the election.

The open use of opioids and meth in cities across the Pacific Northwest has turned once-thriving blocks into boarded-up zones of misery

The premier of B.C. stands firmly against calls by city councillors to end the province's drug decriminalization pilot.

Vancouver city councillor Peter Meiszner says the Thomus Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site (Yaletown OPS) could be relocated.

After months of trying to find a suitable location, Vancouver Coastal Health has secured a new home for the Thomus Donaghy Overdose Prevention site.

A group representing businesses in downtown Vancouver is renewing its call for increased safety measures after one of its members was allegedly attacked over the weekend.

Doug LePard, who co-authored a provincial report on repeat offenders, says Crown prosecutors pushed back when he suggested they fight bail for some chronic offenders.

The city awarded VANDU a $320,000 contract for a six-month Block Stewardship Pilot Program, with the goal of developing an alternative street cleaning process this summer.

“I am noticing more and more that when I walk through a Canadian city or a town lately, I feel this experience of poverty, addiction, and mental health issues quite viscerally.”

Vancouver Coastal Health is denying allegations directed at it in a proposed class-action lawsuit that claims it and others engaged in a “ham-fisted operation,” while operating a downtown overdose...

Oregon officials on Thursday admitted that their pioneering drug decriminalization scheme had not gone as well as hoped in its first year of operations.

Province can point to fewer police interactions, drop in minor drug seizures – but little else

The City of Vancouver will not renew its lease enabling the Yaletown overdose prevention site to operate at 1101 Seymour Street.

Adam Palmer: "You've got open drug use on the sidewalks in different neighbourhoods, in Yaletown and Coal Harbour — all over the city. We're not just talking about the Downtown Eastside."

A new professionally run drug-inhalation facility opened in December near city hall, and critics of the NANDU site argued it was unnecessary to have two sites so close together

Police say they’re investigating a violent assault on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver Saturday night.

After a thrift store owner lashed out at a nearby supportive housing space in Vancouver, governments are making no move to shut it down.

Vancouver police said the 23-year-old victim was leaving work in East Vancouver around 9 p.m. on Saturday when she was grabbed from behind by a man with a knife.

Almost half of small businesses say they have adjusted their way of operating because of crime, while two-thirds report investing in extra security measures such as cameras.

Vancouver police say they shot and injured a man in the Downtown Eastside Saturday morning after he allegedly attacked a patrol officer with "a weapon."

The store at Hornby and Davie Streets has locked up their beverages along with cough drops, Q-tips and cables so customers will have to ask for help.

The City of Vancouver says there has been a noticeable drop in assaults, fires, and overdoses following the Hastings decampment operations.

B.C.'s premier is pushing back on Pierre Poilievre after he said living in Vancouver is "hell on earth" due to drug policies.

Oregon legislatures have passed a bipartisan bill undoing a key part of the state’s decriminalization law, penalizing people for possession and selling small amounts of drugs.  The bipartisan bill …