April 20, 2013. The air around the Vancouver Art Gallery is thick with pot smoke.

It's the annual 4/20 rally, once a fringe event whose attendance has grown 1,000-fold since its inception. On the gallery's north side, you can hardly move an inch amid a crush of patrons at an...

Canada's housing market is falling in the country's major cities and it could very well drag the economy down with it, a prominent housing analyst said on Thursday.

Ben Rabidoux, an analyst and strategist with U.S. research firm Hanson Advisors, told a packed house at The World MoneyShow in Vancouver...

Wannabe reality show The Real Hipsters of Vancouver has received hundreds of audition tapes, but only a select few of Vancouver's indie music-loving population have been brave enough to release their tryouts for all to see.

Aiming to showcase the city's artistic community, the show-in-the-making has drawn interest...

"The Real Housewives of Vancouver" has mercifully passed us by, sparing us no end to petty drama, bad Botox and catfighting.

Season 2 brought us plenty of memorable moments, from Amanda Hansen's "vampire botox" injections to Ronnie Negus' meltdown and Jody Claman

The end of Real Housewives Of Vancouver Season 2 is finally here, and I haven't felt this elated for an ending since the closing credits for Pearl Harbor. It has been a long season with these haute-couture...

Whistler is seeing massive price drops for certain types of condos, but realtors also point out the B.C. resort municipality is attracting a more long-term kind of buyer.

Prices for condos in hotels that are used by owners part-time have dropped by up to 60 per cent since before the...

Do not read on unless you've seen The Real Housewives Of Vancouver Season 2, Episode 9 (or if you don't mind spoilers).

Oh hai, housewives. You're still here in my life, like the leeching "friend" who asks to stay on...

Do not read on unless you've seen The Real Housewives Of Vancouver Season 2, Episode 8 (or if you don't mind spoilers).

We've made it to episode 8 of The Real Housewives Of Vancouver, and I'm counting down...

People say that Vancouver is a walkable city, but "runnable" might be a better descriptor when you look at the mounds of places to pound the pavement.

Forested paths and waterfront routes give gorgeous views of the mountains and the ocean. There are even staircase routes that reward you with...

Author Note: Jesse Ferreras is the associate news editor for The Huffington Post British Columbia. He has never watched The Real Housewives of Vancouver before this season.

A rough road trip from London to Mongolia may not sound like the most conventional fundraiser, but that's how three University of British Columbia students hope to generate $10,000 for a Vancouver non-profit group.

The Mongol Rally is a 16,000-kilometre charity car trip that will force Erik MacKinnon,...

Author Note: Jesse Ferreras is the associate news editor for The Huffington Post British Columbia. He has never watched The Real Housewives of Vancouver before this season.

Vancouver already has its "Real Housewives," so why not the "Real Hipsters," a premise that might actually bear some similarity to the people who live in the city.

Britt Irvin and Jesse Haddock, creators of a proposed reality TV show called "The Real Hipsters of Vancouver," posted a...

A photo of Kate Upton's doppelganger went viral this week, but the Canadian student wants you to know she isn't a mail order bride. Heck, she isn't even a model, although she probably should be.

Ania Korkh, 22, has never modelled before but she became an online celebrity...

Author Note: Jesse Ferreras is the associate news editor for The Huffington Post British Columbia. He has never watched The Real Housewives of Vancouver before this season.

Vancouverites love their coffee, and they're particular about it.

A couple of weeks back, data revealed that Vancouverites prefer Starbucks over Tim Hortons more than any other Canadian city, Canada.com reported.

That isn't necessarily a reflection of how much they love Starbucks, just that most people won't settle...

Author Note: Jesse Ferreras is the associate news editor for The Huffington Post British Columbia. He has never watched The Real Housewives of Vancouver before this season.

Author Stephenie Meyer says that shooting the "Twilight" films based on her books in British Columbia was key to making the movies "beautiful."

B.C.'s natural setting helped to evoke the images described in her teen vampire novels, said Meyer — who is on a press tour for "The Host," another...

Author Note: Jesse Ferreras is the associate news editor for The Huffington Post British Columbia. He has never watched The Real Housewives of Vancouver before this season.

The B.C. Liberals' last budget of this government is set to be delivered at 2 p.m. PT today.

On Monday, former Bank of Montreal economist Tim O'Neill, who was hired by the province, delivered his assessment of the provincial budget and recommended dropping its natural gas...