The Vancouver Sun

Vancouver's report card has just been issued, and while the Canadian city has received high marks in such areas as desirability and ethnic diversity, the city is on the verge of failing in terms of its homelessness and housing affordability.

A new report by the Vancouver Foundation gives the city high marks for livability, but identifies housing and poverty as persistent challenges.

Planners and developers are clashing over the design of Vancouver's Olympic village for the 2010 games. Some say the developers haven't gone far enough to achieve the 3 E's of sustainability.

BC has about half the obesity rate of the Northwest states, a one-third lower car-crash fatality rate, and its residents live an average of two years longer. Why?

The two planners who oversaw highly successful growth in Vancouver for 20 years are calling it quits.

TransLink, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, plans to tax businesses per square meter of parking space in order to help pay for a $1.9 billion, three-year improvement plan.

The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey finds Vancouver housing to be 'severely unaffordable', and 15th worst worldwide.

Greater Vancouver's ambitious long-term regional transportation includes four mega-projects.

In order to increase revenues Vancouver's mayor-elect proposes permitting higher towers and reducing social housing to 20 percent of South East False Creek redevelopment.

A public-private financing deal has been finalized for Vancouver's Richmond-Airport-Vancouver transit system.

Proposal for a "green" Wal-Mart developed especially for Vancouver is rejected as contrary to city's planning goals.

TransLink should spend more than $50 million over the next three years to expand service hours and get new buses on the road faster, says a report to the regional transportation authority.

Developer's dream to build Vancouver second-highest skyscraper suffered a setback

Vancouver's Granville Island Market, once the highest-grossing retail space per square foot in North America, faces a declining share of area food sales

City of Vancouver releases costing of plan for industrial lands adjacent to downtown.

Proposed 37-storey development will generate its own power and have a water recycling system.

Three transit proposals for the estimated $1.7 billion route have in common a tunnel beneath Vancouver's downtown core.

Are suburban business parks to blame for growing congestion in the region?

Greater Vancouver Regional District will apply targeted marketing to encourage more transit use.

Vancouver transit officials plan interventions to increase transit reliability and improve the way the street works, both commercially and socially.