Local News Vancouver facing similar drug crisis, debate on how to approach emergency By Wilson Walker Updated on: August 29, 2024 / 5:38 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco ...

Overdose rates have spiked across the province. The mountain town of Hope (population: about 7,000), a two-hour drive east of Vancouver, has the province’s highest rate of drug overdoses.

Nathan L. Pierce, then 32, of Vancouver appears Aug. 26, 2022, in Clark County Superior Court in connection with a June 2022 gunfight over stolen drugs in the Arnada neighborhood.