NANAIMO - The unofficial start of the summer season has arrived with hundreds of thousands of people expected to travel this long weekendIt also serves as one final stress test for the BC Ferries network ahead of what is projected to be a record-breaking summer season with the company expecting eight million passengers...

NANAIMO - A new pilot project getting ready to launch wants to help isolated and lonely seniors get more involved in community programs. The non-profit group Nanaimo Division of Family Practice (NDFP) were provisionally awarded a City grant on Wednesday, May 15 to help launch a social prescribing pilot project. Directo...

NANAIMO - Highly flammable shrubs and trees located near homes are a potential recipe for disaster. That warning from Nanaimo Fire Rescue (NFR) assistant chief David Dales after gardening maintenance work with a blow torch went wrong in Nanaimo's north end on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 14. A cedar hedge was oblitera...

NANAIMO - One of the premier events on Vancouver Island returns to the skies this weekend.The Comox Air Show takes place Saturday, May 18 at 19 Wing Comox, and final preparations are being made ahead of the highly anticipated event.19 Wing public affairs officer Capt. Christine MacNeil said interest for the event remai...

NANAIMO - Two of the Island's finest performers did all they could, but barely missed out on the grand prize. The Island-based dance duo of Jacksun Fryer and Carlow Rush placed second in the latest season of Canada's Got Talent, missing out on the grand prize to Prince Albert, SK singer Rebecca Strong during the Tuesda...

NANAIMO - Additional childcare spaces at District 68 school sites will be available this fall following a funding announcement from Premier David Eby. Of the 180 new licensed childcare spaces pledged by the premier for the next two years at three school districts, 96 spaces are slated to be added to Nanaimo Ladysmith P...

NANAIMO - A former local commercial fisherman with a long history of illegal angling will be lured back to court to face several more fishing-related charges. Scott Stanley Matthew Steer, 47, and his common-law wife Melissa Dawn Larocque (Steer) were in BC Supreme Court in Nanaimo challenging the validity of a search w...

NANAIMO - Fire has caused considerable damage to a north end home after initially starting near a parked vehicle. Calls to 911 from the homeowner and others came in just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14 to a home in the 5200 block of Hammond Bay Rd., near Fillinger Cres., where a vehicle and surrounding shrubs near a t...

NANAIMO - While significantly older and less mobile than the man busted rummaging on his property, an upper Lantzville resident took matters into his own hands. A high-risk takedown ensued a year and a half ago at a Green Lake Cres. property where a man who requested to remain anonymous intercepted Cory Edward Corbett....

NANAIMO - Operations returned to normal at a north Nanaimo elementary school following disruptions for most of the day.Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools (NLPS) stated a Shelter in Place designation applied to Pleasant Valley Elementary School on Monday, May 13 from about 11 a.m. through 2:30 p.m."School dismissal a...