Category Archives: Nanaimo

Fire devastates historic north Island tourist attraction
PORT McNEILL - Damage is immense as a fierce fire ravaged a critical north Vancouver Island tourist draw. Port McNeill Fire Rescue (PMFR) reported on the morning of Friday, Dec. 31 that a substantial ...
Dec 31, 2024

Nanaimo hospital at 26-1 odds to welcome B.C.'s first baby of 2025
NANAIMO - Those looking for an additional layer of excitement or intrigue this New Year can keep an eye out for where the first baby of the year is born. The B.C. Lottery Corporation offered odds agai...
Dec 31, 2024

Great Nanaimo Toy Drive reports successful campaign, demand shoots up
NANAIMO - A monumental community effort culminated in hundreds of Christmas miracles for families requiring a little extra holiday support. More than 1,600 children and 750 families received new, unwr...
Dec 31, 2024

Top stories of 2024: Drug traffickers handed significant sentences
NANAIMO - While drug trafficking convictions at courthouses throughout the country and province are commonplace, the length of sentences handed out in Nanaimo this year didn't go unnoticed. Several he...
Dec 30, 2024

Nanaimo's Bastion/Commercial Street intersection to close while mine void issue addressed
Editor's note: This article was updated at 1:50 p.m. with further context from the City of Nanaimo's manager of engineering projects. NANAIMO - A key intersection in Nanaimo's downtown core will soon ...
Dec 30, 2024

'Provide decision making tools:' VIU nursing students talking drugs & alcohol with local high schoolers
NANAIMO - A constantly evolving program run out of Vancouver Island University is providing valuable, potentially life-saving, lessons to local high school students. Before P.A.R.T.Y (Preventing Alcoh...
Dec 30, 2024

Top Stories of 2024: Former Howard Johnson Hotel site entering final days
NANAIMO - One of the city's biggest eyesores and problem spots over recent years is poised for demolition in 2025, after an eventful 2024.The former site of the Howard Johnson Hotel, at the corner of ...
Dec 29, 2024

'Heating is a great place to start:' more unsure on how to effectively cut Hydro costs
NANAIMO - The desire to save energy is there, but an increasing number of people are unsure on what more they can do according to BC Hydro Data from Hydro's most recent Residential End Use Survey show...
Dec 29, 2024

Top Stories of 2024: Nanaimo's public works upgrades still in limbo after turbulent year
NANAIMO - A major public works and infrastructure project was front and centre at City Hall for all of 2024, but remains in largely the same spot it did at the end of last year.At the forefront of a m...
Dec 28, 2024

'We're always training:' Nanaimo Fire Rescue constantly brushing up on skills
NANAIMO - A team of firefighters scaling down a high rise building to replicate a potential rescue call is another day at the office for Nanaimo Fire Rescue. The Thursday, Dec. 12 task at the 17-store...
Dec 28, 2024