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Cycling advocates say Vancouver City Council's scrapping of the 30-year, $300 million West End Waterfront Plan is “short-sighted."

Vancouver city council has rejected an attempt to create a licensing framework for retail stores selling magic mushrooms and other psychoactive ethnogens.

Vancouver city council approved a motion Wednesday seeking to preserve and expand the city's aging stock of co-op housing.

Bill 44, adopted by the Provincial legislature in November 2023, will allow for increased maximum densities for the purpose of creating new “small-scale, multi-unit housing.”

Vancouver council is set to hear a report next week on allowing multiplexes in the First Shaughnessy neighbourhood, a heritage conservation area protected from increased density.

Vancouver councillors said the plan was too expensive and have sent it back to the park board to be refocused specifically on ways to protect the shoreline from climate change.

The site has sat empty for more than a decade after 234 former social housing units were destroyed on the 15-acre property.

Two B.C. courts have rejected a Vancouver bylaw limiting how much landlords can hike rents when SRO units turn over. The city wants the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case.

A group of Dunbar homeowners are fighting the project, saying the building is too high and will tower over nearby homes, blocking out the sun.

City council voted unanimously Wednesday to greenlight a permanent sign bearing Vancouver's name.

The plan approved Wednesday directs city staff to come back with a plan, timeline and budget to expand WiFi access in the Downtown Eastside by the end of 2024.

With 28 per cent of assault causing bodily harm complaints in Kelowna involving bear spray, police are seriously considering whether they should put a lid on sales.

The city of Vancouver has added about 1,600 new housing units, close to 1,000 behind where it needs to be, in the first six months since the province issued new housing targets.

The City of Vancouver began work in Gastown roughly two months ago, ahead of its summer pilot of having Water Street a car-free area for July and August.

'Having the playoffs in Vancouver is important on so many levels,' Mayor Ken Sim said as the city revealed it is working on possible viewing parties.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said although there are no plans for viewing parties for Game 1 or 2, the city will host one for Game 3 at Oak Meadow Park on Sunday.

The Surrey Board of Trade has pitched the concept of a 12,000 seat pre-fabricated, modular stadium with the capability to be relocated.

A city staff report says nearly $1 million in funding is needed for the 2024 pilot program that will allow drinking at select beaches in Vancouver.

Residents on Braidwood Road in Courtenay on Vancouver Island say the city and BC Housing have pushed through a plan for the property without consultation.

A little bit of rain did not stop the thousands of people attending the block party in South Vancouver.