Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.

“This emergency is much bigger than any of us can imagine — mass death on this scale is incomprehensible,” Karen Ward told The Tyee. Ward is a tireless community advocate who tracks how government ...

VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim accused city Coun. Sean Orr of "handing out illegal drugs on Christmas Day" in a briefing for Chinese-speaking reporters earlier this month, in a false assertion ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group cruised the Caribbean last month as American forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This month, America’s largest aircraft carrier is heading ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As the nation cautiously marks a two-year decline in overdose deaths, there are new warnings about emerging threats in Chicago-area street drugs, the ABC7 I-Team has learned. Federal ...

Trail Mayor Colleen Jones says she was surprised to learn the district ruled the church basement did not meet B.C.’s building ...

British Columbia (BC) has decided to not extend its 3-year drug decriminalization project, which will expire at the end of January. “The decriminalization pilot project was intended to make it easier ...

San Francisco is finally seeing a sustained reprieve from the height of the accidental drug overdose deaths, but new data indicates the racial and geographic disparities remain staggering. The City ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Hundreds of people die in San Francisco every year from accidental drug overdoses. 2025 was tragically no different, with 621 deaths recorded, the city’s Department of Public ...

In San Francisco, signs of the city’s drug crisis are not very difficult to find. But now, the city is preparing a new tool to address the crisis called a RESET Center. “RESET" stands for Rapid ...

At least two major West Coast cities are rethinking their so-called harm reduction policies that have sought to address addiction, signaling that these areas are overhauling their strategy to combat ...