Residents and business owners hope a redesign of Blood Alley Square and Trounce Alley will make it safer and cleaner without excluding low-income people.

Vancouver police may worry that administering naloxone is "hazardous" for their officers, but healthcare workers say there's very little risk and are encouraging anyone who knows a drug user to get trained on how to use the overdose antidote.

An advocate for drug users on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside says he's forced to buy fentanyl on the street because doctors won't write him a prescription for his chronic pain.