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B.C. Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay says 'sheltered homeless' remains same

Do you like bouncy castles? How about eating a questionably cooked hamburger while standing in the middle of your street, cars be damned? Do you yearn to meet your neighbour who no one really ever sees, living in that weird house at the end of your s

Despite having the highest median housing prices in Canada, Vancouver first-time home buyers spend a median of $420,000, compared to $425,000 in Toronto, according to The Red Pin, a Toronto-based real estate broker and research firm.

People with asthma, chronic respiratory disease and heart failure are being warned to take precautions against a thick blanket of smoke hovering over Metro Vancouver.

The B.C. government is considering impounding the vehicles of drivers caught texting or talking on cellphones while behind the wheel, says Justice Minister Suzanne Anton.

Eight drug researchers fired as part of a flawed Health Ministry investigation in 2012 are unhappy with the province’s decision to have B.C.’s independent ombudsperson probe the matter.

Commissioners to consider designated place for “love locks”

Class room Perhaps the most interesting detail in Ernst & Young’s review of Vancouver schools for the B.C. Ministry of Education is the disproportionate number in East Vancouver that are operating at 80 per cent capacity or less.

While Metro Vancouver was hit with record-high temperatures in June, the real estate market basked in record-high home sales. Residential property sales leaped 28.

A lack of confidence in TransLink’s ability to manage transportation projects appropriately drove voters to vote no in Metro Vancouver’s transportation plebiscite, according to the results of a poll released July 3.