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NANAIMO - Police followed through on a pledge to write tickets during a month-long safe driving campaign. BC Highway Patrol's (BCHP) four Vancouver Island based units teamed up to focus on distracted ...
Daryl Major Apr 04, 2025
NANAIMO - A longstanding anchor tenant at Vancouver Island's largest shopping mall will soon be no more. Liquidation sales are underway at Hudson's Bay department stores across the country including t...
Apr 03, 2025
LADYSMITH - A crash severely impacted northbound traffic on the Trans-Canada Hwy. (TCH) near Ladysmith Thursday afternoon.BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS), confirmed their crews responded to a mot...
Apr 03, 2025
NANAIMO - Alert Bay RCMP are looking for a wanted man. Kevin Kyle Patrick Brown, 35, is wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant for sexual assault and failing to attend court. An RCMP news release not...
Apr 03, 2025
NANAIMO - It's a quiet end to a Harbour City business of well over 75 years. Island Radiators, at the corner of Selby St. and Wentworth St. in downtown Nanaimo officially closed their doors on Monday,...
Daryl Major Apr 03, 2025
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 Tuesd...
Ian Holmes Apr 02, 2025
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 rai...
Alex Rawnsley Apr 02, 2025
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 Mon...
Apr 02, 2025
NANAIMO - One of the oldest movements to stand against sexual violence worldwide is returning to the mid-Island. Take Back the Night events and marches have happened across the world for over 60 years...
Daryl Major Apr 02, 2025
NANAIMO - Phase two of a large proposed central Nanaimo multi-family housing development has taken another step forward. Located on newly constructed Hansen Rd. off East Wellington Rd., phase two will...
Alex Rawnsley Apr 01, 2025