VANCOUVER, British Columbia In this urban oasis widely considered one of the most livable places in the world, the Downtown Eastside is about 15 square blocks of something else.

If you're hoping to visit Gastown or Chinatown, do not walk through the Downtown Eastside neighborhood, which is plagued by open drug use, homeless encampments and crime. Explore More of Vancouver ...

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 ...

Recent evictions at a Vancouver Downtown Eastside hotel are the latest effort by a real estate investment firm to gentrify the low-income neighbourhood, insist area residents and advocates, who ...

Welcome to Canada's poorest postal-code neighborhood—V6A. ... The most significant is that V6A includes Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but also the larger area around the Downtown Eastside.

A new library has broke ground in Vancouver and will serve the poorest postal code in Canada. The Downtown Eastside is rife with poverty, drug use, sex, crime, and violence. The building that will ...

Coun. Pete Fry is calling for more transparency from Mayor Ken Sim and his office after it was revealed that the Vancouver Police Board was not aware of Task Force Barrage until it was announced to ...

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver have released new data they say depicts the success of a task force launched three months ago to curb crime in the city's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

Rather than try to disperse the Downtown Eastside’s social pathologies throughout the region, policymakers have decided to concentrate new subsidized housing construction, welfare services, and drug ...

WISH Drop-In Centre on Alexander Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will close its doors on Feb. 7 for two months, citing funding constraints, ahead of restructuring and service reductions.

The suspect, a 40-year-old Vancouver man, was treated for burns in hospital and remains in police custody. Police say they discovered he was wanted on a B.C.-wide warrant for 10 other offences.