Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - The list of candidates vying to represent the newly redrawn provincial Nanaimo-Gabriola Island riding is changing minute by minute. Online profiles and news releases promoting previously ann...

NANAIMO - New classrooms are coming to Wellington Secondary School.The provincial government, in partnership with School District 68, announced 150 new seats will be added to the school, pushing offic...

With no major external factors on the horizon and a seasonal shift expected in the coming weeks, local gas prices are anticipated to drop. As of Friday, Aug. 30, a litre of gasoline in the Nanaimo reg...

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...