Rent rates across Metro Vancouver are continuing to decline, but two generally more affordable cities are seeing rents increase in May.

Two worlds collided in the best way possible for basketball player Duane Notice earlier this week. The 31-year-old guard is now in his fourth season playing for the CEBL’s Vancouver Bandits. He’s also a noted cinephile who co-hosts the SceneDMs podcast, which has over 36,000 followers on Instagram.

Folks familiar with the matcha scene in and around Vancouver are most likely familiar with the name Nana’s Green Tea. The store operated a location in Kerrisdale that has since moved to the Olympic Village area. Now, the team is gearing up to open a location in downtown Vancouver.

For seven consecutive weeks starting on Monday, June 8, a substantial segment of Granville Street in Downtown Vancouver will be completely closed to all vehicles for its transformation into the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone, coinciding with the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The threat of reduced Metro Vancouver public transit bus and SeaBus services has escalated significantly after unionized workers at TransLink’s operating subsidiary, Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC), voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action.

In recent days, over separate announcements, the Vancouver Liberals civic party have announced three additional candidates for the October 2026 civic election, including two more candidates to fill Vancouver Park Board commissioner seats and one more candidate for Vancouver City Council.

Micro coffee roaster Hiyori Coffee has just opened the doors to its first brick-and-mortar. “After a long season of preparation, Hiyori Coffee is quietly beginning its soft opening,” wrote Hiyori on its Instagram. “There are still a few unfinished details, but we’re finally at the point where we can start sharing coffee in this space.”

The release of TransLink’s limited-edition Compass Soccer Mini keychains drew thousands of eager buyers to Downtown Vancouver’s Waterfront Station on Saturday morning, with the head of the extremely long snaking line first forming Friday night.

The final brushstrokes have been applied to one of Vancouver’s most creative public art installations celebrating the world’s most popular sport and its biggest sporting event.

It was a very, very long weekend for a Jeep driver from Vancouver who was caught with open liquor going well over the speed limit on his way to a camping trip in Squamish, B. C.

The ultimate soccer tournament is coming to Vancouver, and if you can’t watch it live and in-person, the next best place is at the PROLINE House pop-up at Butcher & Bullock. You can think of it like the stadium experience, without the stadium price tag.

Editor’s note: This article was edited to remove an incorrect reference associating Pomonis with a local restaurant. Gallery Vancouver, once hailed as the city’s “most exotic nightlife experience,” recently lost a major B. C. Supreme Court case regarding its liquor licence, and the owner feels the way he and his club have been treated was unfair.

While it might be raining this week, the Metro Vancouver Regional District is preparing to further restrict water use as it gears up for what’s expected to be a hot summer.

Vancouver is in for some spring showers to start the last week of May, but sunshine will make an appearance before the weather turns grey once again.

The housecleaning continues for the Vancouver Canucks. Jim Rutherford is no longer the president of hockey operations. Patrick Allvin is no longer the general manager. And now Adam Foote isn’t the head coach.

Much of the attention surrounding the design of Vancouver’s new Freedom Mobile Arch — the new amphitheatre at the PNE fairgrounds in Hastings Park — has focused on its striking appearance during daylight, defined by its sweeping mass-timber roof and monumental scale.

The vibes from the Vancouver Canucks horrendous season have shifted dramatically over the past couple of weeks since losing the draft lottery.

Metro Vancouver Regional District’s unionized outside workers issued a 72-hour strike notice on Thursday after contract negotiations with the regional district reached an impasse over workplace safety, contracting out protections and staffing concerns, setting the stage for potential job action as early as 3:36 p.m. this Sunday, May 24, 2026.