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Nanaimo dark-sky project combats light pollution for stargazers
NANAIMO - A pair of concrete pads installed at a popular north Nanaimo park are hoped to draw more people to astronomy. A pilot project between the City of Nanaimo and Nanaimo Astronomy Society led to a favoured new place to take in the planets and stars.Located between the parking lot and beach facing the Pacific Ocea...
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Nanaimo's Woodgrove Area Plan takes shape
NANAIMO - A plan to transform north Nanaimo's Woodgrove area into a complete community is coming into focus. City council recently endorsed a proposed final Woodgrove Area Plan to guide Nanaimo's northern gateway and major commercial hub into a more livable and accessible community over the next 25 years.The third and ...
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Looking Back
Clipper netminder takes top prize at annual awards event
NANAIMO - The Clippers celebrated their season and remarkable playoff run with an awards ceremony and gathering of mostly team billets and volunteers.The Tuesday, May 26, celebration came just a few days removed from the end of the team's playoff run, which ended in Brooks on Friday, May 22, and featured speeches and a...
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Nanaimo dark-sky project combats light pollution for stargazers
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future plan
Nanaimo's Woodgrove Area Plan takes shape
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long range forecast
No heat domes, but warmer and drier summer than normal expected in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Expect the warmest months of the year to be a little bit hotter this year. Forecasters with The Weather Network say their long-range projections are calling for a warmer and drier summer than normal for Vancouver Island and much of B.C. Meteorologist Rachel Modestino said there's a strong warm signal through ...
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Batter Up
Nanaimo NightOwls full of optimism for fifth season
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo NightOwls are entering year five in the West Coast League.There is optimism for the team's first playoff berth in 2026 and excitement about a new video board which fans will experience during games.Team Owner Jim Swanson said the season begins with a full travel day on Friday, May 29 to play on th...
May 28, 2026
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shelter space
'Bigger than one winter:' Oceanside dry shelter advocates get RDN support letter
PARKSVILLE - Advocates for Oceanside's unhoused keep pushing for more local shelter space, with a pair of municipalities lending their voices in support. Shayla Day, chair of the Oceanside Homelessness Task Force (OHTF), recently made presentations to both the City of Parksville and the Regional District of Nanaimo (RD...
May 27, 2026
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Nearly $1.3 million targeting Nanaimo & Oceanside veteran homelessness
NANAIMO - New federal funding is focusing on housing and life stability for Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP veterans. Administered through United Way BC, via partnerships with a number of local organizations in Nanaimo and Oceanside, over $1.3 million is earmarked for veterans across the next two years to provide suppor...
May 27, 2026
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Local Mounties collect thousands of water bottles ahead of hot summer months
NANAIMO - The community has responded in a big way to support a new initiative to help those unhoused this summer. Local RCMP officers, along with City of Nanaimo Community Safety Officers and staff from Nanaimo's Real Canadian Superstore location on Metral Dr., collected nearly 4,000 donated bottles of water during a ...
May 27, 2026
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just keep swimming
Frigid training, ice cream helping prepare local woman for Sechelt to Nanaimo swim
NANAIMO - Melanie Buggey fully admits the idea is borderline insane, but still she's preparing to attempt a rare crossing of the Strait of Georgia. Sometime in late July or early August, depending on a number of weather conditions, Buggey plans to swim the 29 kilometres of open water between Davis Bay, near Sechelt, an...
May 27, 2026
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British Columbia
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VICTORIA - The B-C Conservatives will announce their new leader on Saturday in Vancouver six months after John Rustad was chased out of office, and two analysts say the final outcome will have long-term consequences for the party's direction. Former B....
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A First Nation treaty decades in making faces further delays, says B.C. minister
VICTORIA - B.C.'s minister responsible for Indigenous affairs says legislation to move a First Nation treaty forward won't pass this session, further delaying a treaty that has been more than three decades in the making. Spencer Chandra Herbert said t...
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B.C. woman returns home after 2 months in induced coma in China
VANCOUVER - The daughter of a British Columbia woman who slipped into a coma in China while visiting her family says her mom has returned home following a marathon journey. Elena Lanteigne says her mother, 78-year-old Lilia Avoutova, had an eight-hour...
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Wildfire forecast anticipates high risk for new wildfires in B.C., Prairies, N.W.T.
OTTAWA - This year's wildfire season has been slow compared with 2025, but the overall risk remains high in certain parts of Canada because of warm and dry weather conditions. Federal officials told reporters on Thursday that the levels of burning are...
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Why the B.C. Conservative leadership contest is hinge moment for the NDP too
VICTORIA - The B.C. Conservatives are expected to announce their new leader on Saturday, nearly six months after John Rustad was chased out of office. But the announcement at a leadership convention in Vancouver could also represent a pivotal moment fo...
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'Shattered': Daughters of murdered B.C. couple tell of anguish at sentencing hearing
ABBOTSFORD - Family and friends of Arnold and Joanne De Jong filled a courtroom in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday for the reading of anguished victim impact statements, weeks after three men were convicted of murdering the couple. Abhijeet Singh, Gurka...
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Batter Up
Nanaimo NightOwls full of optimism for fifth season
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo NightOwls are entering year five in the West Coast League.There is optimism for the team's first playoff berth in 2026 and excitement about a new video board which fans will experience during games.Team Owner Jim Swanson said the season begins with a full travel day on Friday, May 29 to play on th...
May 28, 2026
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Enticing new members
Open house sessions brought many new faces to Nanaimo Lawn Bowling Club
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo Lawn Bowling Club (NLBC) is in the early portion of its season. Recently, the club held three open house sessions on the green at Bowen Park and NLBC president Kathleen Hewitt was pleased with the results. "They were unbelievably successful. Even better than our 100-year anniversary. We had 1...
May 17, 2026
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Ramping Up
VI Raiders begin journey towards BCFC regular season with spring camp
NANAIMO - The VI Raiders are taking steps forward to return to the top of the BCFC. The team went winless in 2023, then made a huge step forward to 4-6 in 2024 and earned a playoff spot with a 5-4-1 record in 2025. There's two months before the 2026 campaign begins but the first step was spring camp on the May 1-3 week...
May 10, 2026
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Looking Back
Clipper netminder takes top prize at annual awards event
NANAIMO - The Clippers celebrated their season and remarkable playoff run with an awards ceremony and gathering of mostly team billets and volunteers.The Tuesday, May 26, celebration came just a few days removed from the end of the team's playoff run, which ended in Brooks on Friday, May 22, and featured speeches and a...
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Overtime Hurdle
Clippers lose titanic struggle in BCHL Finals to defending champion Brooks
BROOKS - The Clippers lost a fourth straight overtime game to the Brooks Bandits to lose out in five games in the BCHL Finals.After taking the first game by a score of 3-1 Nanaimo lost three straight 2-1 decisions and went down 4-3 in the series finale.The Bandits have now won back to back BCHL championships while Nana...
May 23, 2026
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Overtime Road Block
Clippers come heartbreakingly close but lose third straight OT game in BCHL Finals
NANAIMO - The Clippers did almost everything a team can do to get a win over the Brooks Bandits in Game 4 of the BCHL Finals but lost a third straight 2-1 overtime game.The Bandits have emerged victorious in games beyond 60 minutes in Games 2,3 and 4.It felt very similar to the first three games in Game 4 with tight ch...
May 21, 2026
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Canada
Fact File: No evidence planes are dropping ticks over Ontario
Social media posts shared a rumour originating from an anonymous forum that claimed Ontario pilots were being hired to spread ticks from the air. The posts fuelled a conspiracy theory that the ticks were being dropped with the intention of infecting mo...
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In the news today: Canada-China relations, Kenneth Law to enter plea, Habs vs. Canes
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... China's foreign minister Wang Yi set to meet Carney, Anand today China's foreign minister Wang Yi is in Ottawa today, the first such visit in a decade. He is in C...
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$122M in EV rebate claims made since start of new program as dealers wait to be paid
OTTAWA - Canadians claimed more than $122 million in federal subsidies for new electric vehicles since Ottawa reintroduced its rebate program in February, but many car dealers say they're still waiting to get the funds they are owed. Transport Canada p...
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Kenneth Law pleads guilty to aiding 14 suicides in Ontario
NEWMARKET - An Ontario man accused of selling deadly substances online to people at risk of self-harm has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide. Kenneth Law entered the pleas in a Newmarket, Ont., court this morning. Law was scheduled to stand ...
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A timeline of key events in the case of Kenneth Law, accused of aiding suicides
Kenneth Law, an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used them to take their own lives, is expected to plead guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide after murder charges against him are withdrawn. Police have alleg...
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Canada slips into technical recession as economy stalls in Q1: StatCan
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says economic growth stalled in the first quarter, leading to a second consecutive decline in real gross domestic product. That meets some definitions for a technical recession, though not all economists weighing in on StatCa...
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World
Judge temporarily blocks payouts from Trump's $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from paying any claims through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president's allies who believe they were victims of a weaponi...
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Bus hits cars in Virginia, killing 5 people and injuring 34, state police say
STAFFORD, Va. (AP) - A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals, state police said Friday. The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on southbound ...
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Kenyan police arrest 8 students on suspicion of arson after deadly girls school fire
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan police arrested eight female students on suspicion of arson, authorities said Friday, after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others. The motive remains under inve...
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Made here. Grown here. Connected here. Island Good launches new website to make shopping Island products easier Every choice to shop Island-made is a win for Vancouver Island communities and now it's easier than ever. Island Good has launched a newly redesigned website that helps Vancouver Islanders and visitors quickl...
Mar 19, 2026
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Your New Base for Holiday Gifts + Winter
Your New Base for Holiday Gifts + Winter Gear: MEC Nanaimo Is Open
If you're searching for holiday gifts and winter layers, Nanaimo has a new must-visit destination. Mountain Equipment Company (MEC) has officially opened its doors at 2517 Bowen Road, bringing its trusted lineup of outdoor gear, apparel, and expert guidance to the region, just in time for the winter season. From season...
Dec 14, 2025
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CNIB in need of volunteers to foster future service dogs across Canada
It's a rewarding experience filled with unconditional love and the opportunity to change the life of someone who is blind.Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteers to raise future guide dogs for people who are blind, Deafblind, or have low vision."There's a huge...
Jul 23, 2025
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