one up, one down
Clippers drop first home game of 2025
NANAIMO - A goal inside the opening two minutes helped pace the visiting Coquitlam Express to a win at Frank Crane Arena. On the heels of a 2025-opening 5-1 win in Port Alberni a night prior, the Clippers hosted Coquitlam on Saturday, Jan. 4 and looked to continue their perfect start in the new year. However a goal at ...
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Impaired driver
Attempt to stop suspected impaired driver in Qualicum Beach backfires
QUALICUM BEACH - Oceanside RCMP say a motorist who tried to prevent a suspected impaired driver from going any further failed a roadside screening test.The unusual incident happened at 5:30 p.m. on New Years Eve after Oceanside RCMP Sgt. Shane Worth stated a call was placed to their detachment to report a suspected imp...
Jan 04, 2025
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wood chips
Chipping fundraisers safely disposing of mid-Island Christmas trees
NANAIMO - A pair of events this weekend are helping people safely dispose of their Christmas trees before they become problematic. For the ninth time, Nanaimo Search and Rescue are hold their annual tree chipping event at the Country Club Centre between Best Buy and Dairy Queen on Saturday, Jan. 4 and Sunday, Jan. 5 fr...
Jan 04, 2025
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POWERFUL POWERPLAY
Clippers pound Dogs to open 2025 on winning note
NANAIMO - A monster effort from the Nanaimo Clippers' powerplay helped the team start 2025 on the right foot with a comprehensive road win.After a weekend set in Prince George, the Clippers played their third game since the Christmas break away from home visiting the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Friday, Jan. 3.Some early...
Jan 04, 2025
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wet-ish
'Exiting a long term drought:' slightly above average Nanaimo rainfall helping ease water concerns
NANAIMO - While it wasn't a record-breaker, 2024 proved to be a notable year for local weather watchers.Monitoring stations at Nanaimo Airport collected 1,360.5 millimetres of rain through the calendar year, placing it just ahead of the 1,165.4 millimetres expected but well back of the 1,695.3 millimetre record set bac...
Jan 03, 2025
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huge loss
Museum of whale skeletons, painstakingly rebuilt over years, consumed by Telegraph Cove fire
It takes years to rebuild a whale. Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed numerous whale skeletons on the boardwalk of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. "When we find a dead whale somewhere, especially a larger one, it's a massive job to take that animal from a who...
Jan 03, 2025
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serious incident
Police investigate fatal highway collision in Nanoose Bay
NANOOSE BAY - One person died following a collision on Hwy. 19 at Northwest Bay Rd.The incident was reported to Oceanside RCMP on Friday, Jan 3 at 7 a.m. and involved a pedestrian hit by vehicle in the highway's southbound lanes, stated BC Highway Patrol RCMP Cpl. Michelle LeBrun.She stated the pedestrian, a 61-year-ol...
Jan 03, 2025
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high calibre hockey
VIU Mariners hosting BCIHL All-Star games in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Some of the best hockey players in Western Canada will be in Nanaimo this weekend to showcase their talent in a pair of high-anticipated games. The Vancouver Island University Mariner's hockey team is hosting the BCIHL All-Star game at the Nanaimo Ice Centre with the All-Star team taking on a pair of teams fr...
Jan 03, 2025
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stabilized rates
Property assessments in Nanaimo area and province-wide remain flat
NANAIMO - Little change occurred to most residential property valuation notices province-wide for a second consecutive year. Newly released 2025 property assessments represent a second consecutive year of stabilized valuations following a significant post COVID-19 surge. Maurice Primeau, BC Assessment deputy assessor f...
Jan 03, 2025
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Surrey Police arrest driver after failing to stop at B.C. border crossing
SURREY, B.C. - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they arrested the driver of a vehicle with Washington state licence plates who failed to stop at the Pacific Highway border crossing Sunday. The Surrey Police Service says the Canada Border Services Agency flagged a white pickup truck that drove through the border around 8:45 ...
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Police find human remains in burned SUV in Abbotsford, B.C. park
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Police in Abbotsford are investigating after officers found what are believed to be human remains inside a vehicle that was set on fire in Sumas Mountain Regional Park. They say officers responded to a report of a vehicle fire on Friday around 2:45 p.m. along the Forest Service Road in the park and a...
Jan 04, 2025
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Homicide team investigating death of woman found near a Port Moody, B.C., marina
PORT MOODY, B.C. - RCMP says the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found near a Port Moody, B.C., marina on New Year's Day. Police said they were called to the Reed Point Marina around 9:20 a.m. on Jan. 1 when a person was reported in the water. They said the bo...
Jan 04, 2025
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WestJet denies compensation to Taylor Swift fan after flight cancellation
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - WestJet has denied compensation to a devout Taylor Swift fan whose cancelled flight triggered a 10-hour drive through the night from Prince George to make the singer's shows in Vancouver last month. Carol Hansson says she and other Swifties on the flight incurred hundreds of dollars in costs after...
Jan 04, 2025
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'Support better care': Advocates argue need for mental health emergency service
Khalil Dorival knows what it's like to feel lonely. The Toronto-based mental health advocate has struggled with social anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. "I really suffered in silence, and I used many ways to cope in unhealthy and toxic ways," he says, adding he turned his life around and uses his sto...
Jan 04, 2025
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Person killed after being struck by train in Chilliwack, B.C.
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., say a person was struck and killed by a train near an overpass in the city early this morning. They say officers responded to a report of a pedestrian struck near the Yale Road Overpass and McIntosh Drive around 3:19 a.m. Police say first responders at the scene found th...
Jan 03, 2025
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high calibre hockey
VIU Mariners hosting BCIHL All-Star games in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Some of the best hockey players in Western Canada will be in Nanaimo this weekend to showcase their talent in a pair of high-anticipated games. The Vancouver Island University Mariner's hockey team is hosting the BCIHL All-Star game at the Nanaimo Ice Centre with the All-Star team taking on a pair of teams fr...
Jan 03, 2025
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CHAMPION
Nanaimo's Ethan Katzberg named CP Male Athlete of the Year
VANCOUVER - A history-making medal helped sway voters choosing who would win The Canadian Press male athlete of the award in 2024. Hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg earned the honour for his golden performance at the Paris Olympics. He is Canada's first Olympic champion in the event and earned the country's first hammer th...
Dec 27, 2024
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champions
Top Stories of 2024: Gold medals, national titles and plenty of success for local athletes
NANAIMO - Headlined by multiple Olympic and Paralympic gold medals, but backed up by provincial and national championships, key rebuilds and lots of success - the year in sport on the mid-Island was a big one. While NanaimoNewsNOW will have more on this as our series continues, the biggest sports story of the year was ...
Dec 26, 2024
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POWERFUL POWERPLAY
Clippers pound Dogs to open 2025 on winning note
NANAIMO - A monster effort from the Nanaimo Clippers' powerplay helped the team start 2025 on the right foot with a comprehensive road win.After a weekend set in Prince George, the Clippers played their third game since the Christmas break away from home visiting the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Friday, Jan. 3.Some early...
Jan 04, 2025
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one up, one down
Clippers wrap 2024 by splitting weekend pair in Prince George
NANAIMO - One step forward, one back for the Clippers as they returned from the holiday break.In the second leg of a weekend double header, the Nanaimo Clippers took on the Prince George Spruce Kings at the northern B.C. city on Sunday, Dec. 29.The home side broke the deadlock through a relatively even first period, wi...
Dec 30, 2024
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career night
Lonsdale hattrick drives Clippers to post-Christmas overtime win
NANAIMO - The holiday hangover may have lasted 20 minutes longer than their opponents, but the Nanaimo Clippers came from behind to start their post-Christmas schedule in the best possible way. Following two weeks off, the Clippers regathered in Prince George for the first of two games on Saturday, Dec. 28. It was a sl...
Dec 29, 2024
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Canada
Quebec provincial police investigating death of 70-year-old man found on snowmobile
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are investigating the death of a 70-year-old man who was found on a snowmobile in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of the province. Police say they received a call at 3:30 a.m. Sunday about a man found unconscious on the vehicle in Val-Paradis, Que., about 581 kilometres north...
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Surrey Police arrest driver after failing to stop at B.C. border crossing
SURREY, B.C. - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they arrested the driver of a vehicle with Washington state licence plates who failed to stop at the Pacific Highway border crossing Sunday. The Surrey Police Service says the Canada Border Services Agency flagged a white pickup truck that drove through the border around 8:45 ...
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FBI probing New Orleans truck attacker's travel, including 2023 trip to Ontario
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans says the man behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street travelled to Ontario in July 2023. Special agent Lyonel Myrthil says the investigation is now "crossing state and international borders," as law enforcement pieces together Shamshud-Din Jabbar's mo...
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Conservative MP Luc Berthold says he has prostate cancer but not stepping down
MONTREAL - Conservative MP Luc Berthold has announced he has prostate cancer. The longtime member of Parliament for Quebec's Mégantic-L'Érable federal riding shared the news on social media today. Berthold said in a Facebook post that the cancer is treatable but will require an operation that he expects t...
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Thousands are without power due to winter storm hitting Newfoundland and Labrador
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A winter storm in Newfoundland and Labrador has resulted in localized flooding and has left thousands without power as massive waves continue to slam the coastline. Ian Gillies, reached over the phone from Brigus South - a community along the coast about 60 kilometres south of St. John's - says he's ...
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Over a dozen injured after bus swerves on Quebec road near Canada - U.S. border
MONTREAL - Over a dozen people were injured after a bus swerved and crashed onto its side near the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec's Eastern Townships region Saturday night. Quebec provincial police says the bus was travelling on Route 133 when the driver lost control at around 8:30 p.m. in Saint-Armand, Que., about 62 ki...
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World
South Korean anti-corruption agency asks police to take over efforts to detain impeached Yoon
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's anti-corruption agency has requested that police take over efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after its investigators failed to bring him to custody following an hours-long standoff with the presidential security service last week. The agency and police confirmed...
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The FBI says the man responsible for New Year's truck attack visited New Orleans twice before
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Houston, also traveled to Cairo, Egypt, ...
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Austrian People's Party nominates Christian Stocker as interim leader after Nehammer resigns
VIENNA (AP) - Austrian People's Party has nominated its General Secretary Christian Stocker as interim leader after the expected resignation of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Austrian news agency APA reported. Stocker, a lawyer and member of the Austrian Parliament, has served as general secretary of the People's Party sinc...
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Dec 03, 2024
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