NanaimoNewsNOW is celebrating 10 years of serving Nanaimo and the mid-Island, by looking at the ways our region has changed in the last decade. NANAIMO - Amid constant change throughout the Harbour City over the last decade, perhaps little has shifted course more than how information is shared. While the rise of social...

NANAIMO - An upbringing filled with adversity and resilience has helped a local woman secure a critical post-secondary scholarship.Elizabeth MacDonald, 18, recently graduated from Nanaimo District Secondary School and found out a few weeks before her walk across the stage she'd won a life-changing $60,000 award from th...

NANAIMO - A break-in at a central Nanaimo clinic illuminated the depths a drug addict will go.Riley David Quin, 46, was handed an 18-month jail sentence, followed by 18 months' probation, after pleading guilty to a break-and-enter gone wrong at a central Nanaimo health clinic.Crown counsel's Leanne Mascolo outlined fac...