NANAIMO - A lifelong Nanaimo resident deeply entrenched in the local criminal underworld has managed to escape extended jail sentences for years. That changed abruptly for Kerry Wallace Chang on Tuesday, April 1. Chang, 56, was handed a seven-year, seven-month prison sentence in B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo after he w...

NANAIMO - A pair of rain storms last month was enough to produce the 14th wettest March in 60 years. That's according to Environment Canada meteorologist Chris Doyle, who said 150.4 millimetres of rain fell in Nanaimo last month, about 140 per cent of the regular monthly average. Two atmospheric river events played a b...

NANAIMO - Police are trying to trace the final steps of a woman found unresponsive near the Jack Point Trail earlier this week. Mounties were called out to the Duke Point Hwy. around 12:30 p.m. on Monday, March 31 after the adult woman and Nanaimo resident was found a short distance from the shore. Nanaimo Fire Rescue ...