climate funds
Nanaimo makes push to restore provincial climate action funding
NANAIMO - With funding not renewed beyond this year, local governments are advocating to maintain a versatile climate action program. Since 2022, the Local Government Climate Action Program (LGCAP) has provided over $1.6 million to the City of Nanaimo to support numerous energy efficiency initiatives, including capital...
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$7 million
Government funding to help with Parksville Fire Station renovation
PARKSVILLE - A senior government grant is helping green light sorely needed upgrades to the City's fire station.The City of Parksville announced Thursday, July 30, they were the recipient of $7 million from the federally funded Strategic Priorities Fund, designed to help municipal governments with major projects beyond...
Aug 02, 2026
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residential and commercial
Three-storey mixed-use building coming to Nanaimo's Diver Lake
NANAIMO - The vision of a three-storey building on Diver Lake mixing residential units with office space is starting to come together after the approval of a development permit. Located at 3679 Shenton Rd., the proposal would have commercial office space in the first and second storeys, with 17 multiple-family units of...
Aug 02, 2026
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Training structure a 'game-changer' for Nanoose/Lantzville fire crews
NANOOSE BAY - Candidly declaring prior structural fire and rescue drills were not realistic, the deputy chief of Nanoose Bay Fire Department (NBFD) is excited about what they have to train with now. Completed and in use since early this year, NBFD and Lantzville Fire Rescue are regularly benefiting from a two-storey cu...
Aug 01, 2026
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community celebration
Ladysmith Days capped off by fireworks
LADYSMITH - A popular family-friendly event drawing thousands of people to Ladysmith this weekend will go out with a bang. Celebrated annually for over 50 years, Ladysmith Days happens Saturday, Aug. 1 and Sunday, Aug. 2, with most of the itinerary based at Transfer Beach Park and downtown Ladysmith. The festivities ki...
Jul 31, 2026
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10th anniversary coverage
NNN's Last 10: Battle between fact and fiction sees decade of rapid change
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...
Jul 31, 2026
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battling adversity
Nanaimo woman planning for university after life-changing scholarship
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...
Jul 31, 2026
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seeking redemption
Bloodied offender sentenced for Nanaimo clinic break-in, strong rehab potential shown
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...
Jul 31, 2026
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Serauxmen Stadium celebrating 50 years in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A special celebration is being planned before the Nanaimo NightOwls game on Friday, July 31, to honour the 50th anniversary of Serauxmen Stadium. The pre-game ceremony starts at 6 p.m. at the stadium, with the first pitch against the Port Angeles Lefties being thrown at 6:35 pm, with fans encouraged to arrive...
Jul 30, 2026
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British Columbia
Okanagan wildfires force expanded orders, alerts as First Nation assesses losses
VERNON - Wildfires burning on the west side and north end of Okanagan Lake have forced more evacuation orders and alerts. Central Okanagan Emergency Management issued a further evacuation order because of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire, bringing the to...
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Lakeside homes destroyed, evacuations expanded as B.C. wildfires surge
VERNON - A wildfire fanned by 115-kilometre-per-hour winds razed homes along the west side of British Columbia's Okanagan Lake, forcing many residents to escape to safety. Video and photos posted online showed flames in the night sky engulfing propert...
Aug 02, 2026
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Elizabeth May says Greens can win byelection by campaigning on PM's climate record
OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she thinks the Greens can pull off an upset in one of the upcoming byelection races by campaigning on Liberal rollbacks of climate policy. The Greens are running Shelley Luce - an environmental scientist w...
Aug 02, 2026
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'It's a responsibility': animals moved out as B.C. fire risk looms
Will Unruh says the 13 bison he cares for at his ranch near the shores of British Columbia's Green Lake know that something is amiss. Smoke from a nearby wildfire is in the air, and they are staying close. "They're hanging out right in this little corr...
Aug 01, 2026
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Class-action lawsuit over sexual abuse at Metro Vancouver schools settled for $30M
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has approved a $30-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over historical claims of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at two schools in Metro Vancouver run by the Catholic Church. The court approve...
Aug 01, 2026
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RCMP continue careful recovery of sunken fishing charter in B.C. waters
RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Mounties say raising a sunken fishing charter in the Straight of Georgia near Richmond, B.C., where six people are presumed drowned, needs to be done carefully as the vessel is considered evidence in their investigation. P...
Jul 31, 2026
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major milestone
Serauxmen Stadium celebrating 50 years in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A special celebration is being planned before the Nanaimo NightOwls game on Friday, July 31, to honour the 50th anniversary of Serauxmen Stadium. The pre-game ceremony starts at 6 p.m. at the stadium, with the first pitch against the Port Angeles Lefties being thrown at 6:35 pm, with fans encouraged to arrive...
Jul 30, 2026
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Home Opener
VI Raiders on the rise through the BCFC
NANAIMO - 2026 begins against the same opponent the VI Raiders faced in the British Columbia Football Conference playoffs last year. VI will host the Okanagan Sun to kick off a new season on Saturday, July 18, at Q'unq'inuqwsuxw Stadium. The Sun won their playoff matchup last fall 43-12, as part of a 10-0 season that s...
Jul 17, 2026
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Pushing for Playoffs
NightOwls poised for best season yet
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo NightOwls have hit the all-star break with a record of 22-17, and they sit in fourth place in the West Coast League's North Division. Coach Cody Andreychuk is thrilled with the club's first month and a half of the season. "The first half was the strongest we've had since the NightOwls have be...
Jul 14, 2026
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Clippers 2026-27 BCHL schedule released
NANAIMO - Next season's full BCHL schedule has been released, with the puck dropping on the Nanaimo Clippers regular season on Friday Sept. 18 at Frank Crane Arena against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.The Clippers will have 26 home dates, 26 away games, and two yet-to-be-announced contests at the BCHL Showcase.Fridays w...
Jul 08, 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...
May 28, 2026
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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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Canada
Canadian astronaut prepares for NASA mission to International Space Station
A few months after Artemis II's lunar flyby, another Canadian astronaut is preparing for a mission in space. Joshua Kutryck from Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., is one of four members assigned to NASA's SpaceX Crew 13 mission. The crew will spend six month...
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Okanagan wildfires force expanded orders, alerts as First Nation assesses losses
VERNON - Wildfires burning on the west side and north end of Okanagan Lake have forced more evacuation orders and alerts. Central Okanagan Emergency Management issued a further evacuation order because of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire, bringing the to...
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Duelling symbols: Alberta and Canada flags creating division ahead of referendum
EDMONTON - Sarah Batchelor says it started a few weeks ago when a large blue flag bearing Alberta's shield of arms appeared on her neighbour's window in Airdrie, a city north of Calgary. The 49-year-old music teacher, who has lived in the province fo...
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WestJet, CUPE reach tentative deal as passengers scramble amid flight disruptions
CALGARY - WestJet and the union representing some 4,400 flight attendants reached a tentative deal Monday to resume work after a brief work stoppage, but neither side is sharing specifics yet. The airline had said Sunday it had proposed a 13 per cent p...
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Some Canadians tell Carney Ottawa's spelling protocol should lean British
OTTAWA - It seems some Canadians feel quite at home with the federal government's preference for British spelling. Messages to Prime Minister Mark Carney on the matter indicate several correspondents see the affectation as a way of countering U.S. cult...
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Hundreds protest Meta's plan for massive data centre in northern Alberta county
MORINVILLE - Hundreds of protesters chanted "Down, down with corporations" outside a northern Alberta county office on Sunday to voice their opposition to tech giant Meta's plan to build a data centre. The morning protest took place in Morinville, a to...
Aug 02, 2026
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World
New talks are 'last chance' for Iran to forge a deal and avoid escalation of US strikes, Trump says
WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly planned talks between Washington and Tehran are the "last chance" for Iran to forge a deal and avoid an escalation of U.S. strikes on the country, President Donald Trump said Monday. Trump, speaking at the Oval Off...
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Europe's hot, dry summer takes its toll with fires in France and Greece, and drought in the UK
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilize a blaze in Provence, and much of the U.K. recor...
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Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rare meeting with International Red Cross
BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross' representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for th...
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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...
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