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  • Greek Islanders Want the Refugee Crisis Over — and the Migrants Gone

    Five years into Europe’s refugee crisis, the multi-billion Euro refugee deal with Turkey has broken down. Less than 2% of the refugees slated for resettlement in the rest of Europe have left Greece, as European nations refuse to implement the bloc’s continent-wide asylum policy. At the same time, almost no failed asylum claimants have been returned to Turkey, while the number of new arrivals have spiked, doubling in the past year. As a result, Greece has been left to cope with the crisis alone, with the bankrupt Southeast European nation transformed into the continent’s open-air prison camp. On the island of Samos, where 7000 migrants and refugees live in squalid conditions on the hillside overlooking a town of 7000 Greeks, locals are enraged. With the tourist economy devastated, islanders feel abandoned by both the Greek government in Athens and the European Union as a whole. The situation’s about to explode: and local islanders blame the mostly Northern European NGOs and journalists they accuse of exacerbating the migrant crisis, and ruining the image of their island overseas. VICE News travelled to Samos to meet the refugees, migrants and locals living in uncomfortable proximity as tensions mount, and local officials demand action from the capital. With tensions at boiling point, this once-idyllic island is the frontline of Greece and Europe’s migrant crisis.

  • Meghan Markle Escaping the Crown

    When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry she seemed to have it all. But less than two years after her fairy tale wedding, she’s walking away. How did it come to this?

  • America’s EMT Shortage Has Rural Communities Relying on Unpaid Volunteers

    There’s a crisis unfolding in rural America. While big cities are getting bigger, small town USA is shrinking. If you live in one of these rural communities, chances are you’re poorer and sicker than your urban counterpart. Across the country, towns that have less people have even less first responders Oceana, West Virginia is one of those towns. It’s surrounded by logging jobs and coal mines that provide the main source of income for the roughly 1,300 people that live there.

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  • This Is How Bee Stings Can Help Cure Lyme Disease

    For the past five years or so, people with chronic Lyme disease have been stinging themselves with bees. Ten bees. At a time. Three times a week. They leave the stingers in. For twenty minutes. Alzo Slade meets the people who do it

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  • VICE VERSA Meghan Markle Escaping The Crown

    VICE Versa independent documentaries give voice to radical and unapologetic points of view. Immersive, provocative, and only on VICE, these stories tackle the broken systems and corrupt power structures of modern life head on. When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry she seemed to have it all. But less than two years after her fairy tale wedding, she’s walking away. How did it come to this?

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    Rat Park Documentary: Behind The Scenes

    Behind the scenes of the new Vice Canada feature documentary – Rat Park. Could the secret to solving the world’s drug crisis lie in a forgotten psychology experiment from the 1970s involving rats and heroin? RAT PARK examines the complex issues of drug laws and addiction, exploring why the problem may not be about the drugs themselves, but the environments we live in. Following three stories worlds apart, RAT PARK examines the impact of drug policy in the world’s war on drugs. A VICE Canada / Crave Original Documentary

  • Behind The Zero Line

    In 2016 VICE travelled to Zaitseva, Ukraine – a small, divided village trapped in the grey zone between the separatist (DNR) and Government front lines of Eastern Ukraine. After two years of fighting, and thousands of civilian and military casualties, there is still no political will to bring a meaningful end to the conflict in the East. And with an official ceasefire in place much of the world has lost interest in Ukraine. But life – and war – goes on

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  • Schools Divided

    Not all US schools are treated equally. Despite decades of protests, court victories, and political pledges some schools still lack resources that are barriers to student success.

  • After The Shootings

    VICE News explores school shootings from Columbine to Parkland through the eyes of those who’ve survived. The stories trace how people and communities try to overcome the aftermath.

  • Planet in Peril

    With flooding coastlines and burning forests, Climate Change is here. VICE News goes from Greenland to Houston to see how global warming threatens our way of life.

  • Animal Takeover

    Vice News goes full Attenborough, hopping from rat-infested cities to the prairies overrun with wild horses, to see how human beings have helped invasive species to flourish.

  • Gangs of Central America

    Chicago’s south and west sides have been dealing with gun violence and gang warfare for decades. VICE News investigates how the city that some call Chiraq is trying to fix the problem.