new beginning
Revived Nanaimo Ambassador Program focused on leadership, community
NANAIMO - Dormant for nearly a decade, a former pageant competition is being reborn to place the focus squarely on leadership and community involvement. The Nanaimo Ambassador Program is underway, open to any grade 11 student in the region to submit their name and candidacy to represent Nanaimo at a number of community...
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Return to Form
Clippers snap two game mini slump with win over Capitals
NANAIMO - The Clippers have upped their record to 5-3 with a 3-1 home ice win over the Cowichan Valley Capitals.It was a special night for the team with the return of forward Patrick Fortune for a third season in Nanaimo.Although the 20-year-old was held pointless in his first game he created plenty of offensive opport...
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power stays on
Brief wind storm through Nanaimo serves as early season test
NANAIMO - A brief but blustery windstorm through the mid-Island overnight served as the first real test of power infrastructure this fall and winter.While winds didn't warrant issuing of any warnings or alerts, sustained winds reached around 30 kilometres per hour in Nanaimo overnight Thursday, Oct. 8, and into the ear...
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Youth justice
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NREMR: September 2026
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new beginning
Revived Nanaimo Ambassador Program focused on leadership, community
9h ago
Return to Form
Clippers snap two game mini slump with win over Capitals
14h ago
Nanaimo, Parksville and Area
2026 municipal election
Know Your Vote: Balancing tax increases with essential infrastructure & services
This article is part of a multi-story series looking further into the responses to NanaimoNewsNOW's Know Your Vote survey, our interactive voter information tool for the 2026 Municipal Election in the City of Nanaimo. NANAIMO - Mayor and Council contenders in the city this election cycle are largely uniform in their be...
Oct 9, 2026
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101 new units
'Integrated into the landscape:' rental complex planned in Nanaimo's Rock City
NANAIMO - A substantial development is being proposed in the city's north end near Cottle Lake Park, utilizing the natural environment while providing over 100 units of housing.The proposed development, located at 3481 Rock City Rd. between Ocean Pearl Ter. and Landalt Rd., would bring a four-storey, L-shaped multi-fam...
Oct 9, 2026
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provincial election
Taxes - hike them or hold them - become theme in B.C. election campaign
Taxes have become a central theme in the first half of British Columbia's election campaign with leaders promising to hold, hike or cut them. Whether it's taxing the wealthy to pay for services like health care or suggesting that tax cuts will "superc...
Oct 9, 2026
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expensive month
'Must be that personal exceptionalism:' distracted driving increases three-fold on Island roads
NANAIMO - A month-long campaign focusing on catching distracted drivers and those not wearing seatbelts has been depressingly productive for local police. Members from BC Highway Patrol say they wrote 214 tickets for using an electronic device while driving on Vancouver Island alone through the month of September, up f...
Oct 9, 2026
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positive transformation
'I'm so shameful:' Nanaimo OPS drug trafficker avoids jail
NANAIMO - Deeply addicted while serving a peer support worker role at Nanaimo's overdose prevention site, a woman with no prior criminal record has been sentenced following high-profile arrests at her workplace. Sara Lynn Koshman, 37, was handed a two-year conditional sentence order after pleading guilty to a pair of d...
Oct 8, 2026
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lost control
Driver, residents uninjured as car smashes through back fence of Nanaimo home
NANAIMO - Police say the driver of a white Acura is extremely lucky not to have been injured after a late-evening crash in the city's south end. Calls to 911 were made just after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, after the car lost control travelling along Bruce Ave., crashed through the fence of a nearby home on Silver Mou...
Oct 8, 2026
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British Columbia
B.C. election campaign: Parties talk jobs, data centres, royalties
Candidates running in this month's provincial election spent the start of the long weekend on the campaign trail. Here are some of the latest developments: NDP PROMISES FERRY SPOTS FOR LOCALS The NDP says it would launch a "locals-first" ferry reservat...
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B.C.'s Eby asks Doerkson to remove campaign chief over social media slamming Islam
VICTORIA - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is calling on Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson to fire his party's campaign director for comments that called Islam an "abhorrent ideology" which needs to be expelled. Eby, who was speaking a...
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Nearly half of provinces, territories call on Ottawa to expand mining tax credit
OTTAWA - Nearly half of Canada's provinces and territories are calling on the federal Liberals to fulfil their election promise to expand eligibility for a mining exploration tax credit to help smaller mining companies get through their exploration pha...
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Overlapping local, provincial elections in B.C. causing confusion: candidates
Cori Ramsay, a candidate for city council in Prince George, B.C., says a voter told her they can't wait to cast a ballot for her on Oct. 24. The voter would surely be disappointed, as Ramsay's election is a week earlier, on Oct. 17. As British Columbi...
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Former ISIS bride pleads guilty to terror-related charge in B.C. court
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia woman who married an Islamic State fighter has pleaded guilty to terrorist-related charges in a Vancouver court. The Public Prosecution Service of Canada confirms that Kimberly Polman pleaded guilty on Thursday to leavin...
Oct 9, 2026
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Galloway 'ashamed' of affair, but says no prohibition on faculty-staff relationships
VANCOUVER - Author and former UBC creative writing chair Steven Galloway has told a court that he is ashamed of having had an affair with a student, but there was no prohibition on sexual relationships between faculty and students. Galloway - who is no...
Oct 9, 2026
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Local Sports
Leveling Up
Three Nanaimo Timbermen standouts chosen in NLL entry draft
NANAIMO - Draft day in the National Lacrosse League was special for the Senior A Nanaimo Timbermen. Three players who just finished their first seasons in the WLA were drafted in the top 33 selections. Right-hander Jeremy Wudrick went 27th overall to the Vancouver Warriors, while defender Joel Mullen was also picked by...
Oct 3, 2026
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Championship Mentality
John Barsby's varsity football team brings a winning attitude to a new season
NANAIMO - The high school varsity football season has begun in the mid island with the John Barsby Bulldogs winning their season opener 55-34 against Abbotford. Barsby is in a AA/AAA hybrid division with Ballenas out of Parksville and Mt. Douglas and Spectrum schools from Victoria. Initially Nanaimo District Secondary ...
Sep 26, 2026
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Kicking It
VIU soccer teams hit the pitch for 2026 PACWEST season
NANAIMO - The VIU Mariners are beginning a new PACWEST soccer season with differing expectations.The women will attempt to win the provincial championship for a third straight time, while the men are hoping to rise up the table after finishing 2-7-3 in 2025.Women's coach Bobbie Taylor said her group will have a strong ...
Sep 12, 2026
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ClippersNOW
Return to Form
Clippers snap two game mini slump with win over Capitals
NANAIMO - The Clippers have upped their record to 5-3 with a 3-1 home ice win over the Cowichan Valley Capitals.It was a special night for the team with the return of forward Patrick Fortune for a third season in Nanaimo.Although the 20-year-old was held pointless in his first game he created plenty of offensive opport...
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from sweden to nanaimo
Veteran Nanaimo Clippers goaltender excelling in new environment
NANAIMO - The Clippers have once again found an impressive veteran goalie. Hugo Laring has given the team excellent netminding after taking over from Eliot Seguin-Lescarbeau, who led Nanaimo to the BCHL finals last spring. In his first month with the Clippers, Laring was given an honourable mention for the three stars ...
Oct 8, 2026
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Close Loss
Late goal against sees Clippers fall in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - The Clippers have lost back to back games for the first time this season.After a 3-2 loss in Coquitlam on Saturday, Oct. 3 Nanaimo suffered a narrow 2-1 road defeat against the Chilliwack Chiefs on Oct. 4.Jack Clark scored the Clippers only goal on a rebound in the closing moments of a first period power p...
Oct 4, 2026
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Canada
B.C.'s Eby asks Doerkson to remove campaign chief over social media slamming Islam
VICTORIA - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is calling on Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson to fire his party's campaign director for comments that called Islam an "abhorrent ideology" which needs to be expelled. Eby, who was speaking a...
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'Extra stress': Tension peaking among Albertans as separation vote nears
EDMONTON - Some families and friends across Alberta are set to gather for a Thanksgiving meal this weekend with the hope that the only thing that gets roasted is the turkey. Sarah Batchelor says politics will be off the dinner table at her home in Aird...
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Nearly half of provinces, territories call on Ottawa to expand mining tax credit
OTTAWA - Nearly half of Canada's provinces and territories are calling on the federal Liberals to fulfil their election promise to expand eligibility for a mining exploration tax credit to help smaller mining companies get through their exploration pha...
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Nickelback Plans Massive 2027 World Tour With Seven Canadian Concert Stops.
TORONTO - Canadian rock band Nickelback has announced a massive 2027 world tour on its official Instagram page. The tour kicks off Feb. 6 in Pittsburgh, with nearly 70 concerts planned across North America, Europe and Australia. Seven Canadian stops ar...
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Complaint filed to medical regulator over MP saying fentanyl 'readily available' in MAID report
TORONTO - Remarks made by a member of Parliament, who is also a doctor, suggesting illicit drugs such as fentanyl are a "painless" and "readily available" option to end one's life are now the subject of a complaint filed to the College of Physicians an...
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Overlapping local, provincial elections in B.C. causing confusion: candidates
Cori Ramsay, a candidate for city council in Prince George, B.C., says a voter told her they can't wait to cast a ballot for her on Oct. 24. The voter would surely be disappointed, as Ramsay's election is a week earlier, on Oct. 17. As British Columbi...
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World
Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end his country's war with Russia and blaming him for high diesel prices in the U.S. ...
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Shooting leaves 9 dead including suspect in Erie, Pennsylvania, police say
A shooting in a residential area of Erie, Pennsylvania, left nine dead including two children, a pregnant woman and the suspected shooter, authorities said. Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said the 45-year-old male gunman was related to seve...
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Christa Pike is discharged from a hospital after surviving execution attempt, her attorneys say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and is back at the Deborah K...
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Program helping homeowners cut costs
Nanaimo Homeowners: Centra's $1M Window Efficiency Plan is now over 75% claimed
The Centra Install Pros Window Efficiency Plan - a program helping Nanaimo homeowners cut the cost of new windows and doors - is running out of runway fast. The plan puts up to $650 toward each window or door replaced, drawn from a dedicated $1 million fund set aside for local homeowners. There is no income testing and...
Sep 18, 2026
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Resort-Style Retirement Living in Nanaimo's Old City Quarter
For many retirees, and those nearing retirement, staying in their home can be difficult. The time spent on day-to-day maintenance, plus dealing with bigger repairs usually required on an older home, can cut into time they'd rather spend enjoying their retirement. And if they're traveling, they don't want to worry about...
Jul 28, 2026
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Most people who volunteer for their strata council don't sign up to be an accountant. But for many in smaller strata communities, with less than 50 units, that's exactly what they end up doing. They spend time researching bylaws, getting quotes for maintenance, and worrying that something important has been missed. The...
Jun 9, 2026
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