Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - An expanded and updated gathering space at Vancouver Island University (VIU) is now available for Indigenous students.Located in the Shq'apthut (a gathering place) building on campus, the up...

Editor's Note: This article contains details of animal abuse. Reader discretion is advised.NANAIMO - A man was fined, handed community service duty and banned from caring for animals for a decade for ...

PARKSVILLE - Search efforts are continuing to locate a man last seen walking into a wooded area by Horne Lake.Twenty-nine year old Jordan Kirchner was last seen by a friend walking into the backcountr...

NANAIMO - Arnold Roxas has looked out a drive-through window and seen everything, from cars and trucks to tanks and artillery. Roxas, manager of the McDonald's on Nanaimo's Bowen Rd., was presented wi...

NANAIMO - A B.C. Supreme Court judge awarded the victim of a high-speed Nanaimo highway crash more than $3 million in damages, lost and future earnings and care costs.Paul Jacques, based at the time o...

NANAIMO - The city's former top firefighter has received a high honour. Karen Fry, chief of Nanaimo Fire Rescue from summer 2017 to early January 2021, was one of 54 recipients of the King Charles III...

NANAIMO - Police say it's never a good idea to send a nude photo of yourself to someone on the internet. It's a piece of advice a local man learned after being extorted by online criminals who who thr...

NANAIMO - Some maintenance on natural gas lines in the Nanoose Bay area had some unpleasant consequences elsewhere.Complaints to FortisBC and local first responders skyrocketed early morning, on Wedne...

NANAIMO - A local social worker became the victim of a severe, obsessive mission by a man who refused to leave her alone. Well over two years after Brandon Lee Anderson's campaign against the woman be...

NANAIMO - A once barren patch of grass overrun by weeds is now a flourishing garden and gathering area at Kiwanis Village Nanaimo. A little over eight weeks after crews began transforming a 3,000 squa...