Medics with the Vancouver Fire Rescue Services attend to a man who overdosed on drugs in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) In the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Casting about for ways to get a handle on entrenched problems with drug use and addiction, the Canadian province of British Columbia embarked early this year on a pilot program ...

Police have denied a human rights group's accusations that they are using excessive force and worsening an AIDS epidemic in a Vancouver neighborhood by cracking down on drug peddlers. A report issued ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — More than 11 pounds of heroin was seized in Vancouver Thursday afternoon in part because of the trained nose of a K-9 named Piper. The Clark-Vancouver Drug Task Force ...

Vancouver police seized more than 13 pounds of heroin, over a pound of cocaine and methamphetamine and two guns from a Fisher's Landing East residence on Sept. 11. (Photo Courtesy of the Vancouver ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV) - The Vancouver City Council unanimously voted to withdraw the Vancouver Police Department from the Clark-Vancouver Drug Task Force, Monday. In early July, VPD provided Clark ...

A deputy sheriff assists Clark-Vancouver Drug Task Force members during a drug bust operation in Vancouver. (The Columbian files) Vancouver Police Chief Jeff Mori proposed withdrawing the department ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The man a Vancouver police officer fired at Saturday morning faced new charges in a Wednesday court appearance. Dominic Tovar was charged with first-degree assault, unlawful ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- An interrupted Easter Egg hunt led police to an illegal marijuana operation in Vancouver Saturday. Deputies with the Clark County Sheriff's Office arrived at a home in the Salmon ...

North America's only sanctioned facility for injection of illegal drugs has cut overdose deaths and should be used as a model in other cities, according to a study published on Monday in the Lancet ...

AS A STUNT, it took some beating. A Vancouver city councillor joined activists outside a police station on July 14th to distribute free heroin, meth and cocaine. These “safe” samples of illicit drugs, ...

Ohio sees its first full-fledged marijuana legalization bill, Mississippi is moving toward a legislative special session to address medical marijuana, legalization in Israel gets stalled, and more.