The owner of a Downtown Eastside bistro who has been beset by street crime says ironically, he's been told he could make more ...

The Downtown Eastside is a clump of rundown hotels and liquor stores. It is teeming with pushers, pimps and prostitutes, and home to one of the worst drug problems in North America.

Vancouver police officers have arrested a man a day after he began operating an illicit drug dispensary in the Downtown Eastside.

B.C. seeks to keep cash seized from Downtown Eastside gang The B.C. government has filed a lawsuit against alleged Downtown Eastside drug traffickers, seeking the forfeiture of more than $150,000 ...

The critical question facing neighborhoods like the Downtown Eastside is: What is the desired end? Mark Tyndall, a physician and leading harm-reduction advocate in Vancouver, believes that the goal of ...

“After conducting a scan of VPD policy and training materials, there is nothing directing members to employ or adhere to ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Jen Nelson is known as the cannabis angel of the Downtown Eastside. She regularly roams ...

While Vancouver and San Francisco may have differing approaches when it comes to the opioid crisis, there is a very similar debate in each city over what the approach to the emergency should look ...

Places offering support to drug users line the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the neighborhood hardest hit by Canada’s opioid crisis.

The drug problem is at its most acute in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, several astonishingly squalid blocks that protrude from the city’s affluent centre.

San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia, are two West Coast cities that have been hit hard by the fentanyl crisis, but health officials in the Canadian metropolis have responded with a ...