Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - A long-awaited project scope and budget is now clear for a pending new cancer centre at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH). Health Minister Adrian Dix announced details of the project ...

UPDATE - Oceanside RCMP report John Mathers was found, deceased, by search crews on Wednesday, April 17. "The cause of his death is not considered suspicious. The RCMP offers its condolences to the fa...

NANAIMO - A vulnerable man sleeping at a bus stop awoke to a woman stabbing him several times in the head. Kimberly Anne Lewis, 53, pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for aggravated assault for an Au...

NANAIMO - Funding from the provincial government is increasing the number of complex care facilities for those with mental health or addiction challenges.As part of a 240-unit addition province-wide, ...

NANAIMO - It was triumphant return to a national television audience for a local singer. Lauren Spencer-Smith returned to American Idol, not as a contestant, but as a guest performer during the Sunday...

NANAIMO - It's almost time once more the rubber to hit the road. Registration for the third annual Hub City Soap Box Derby opens Monday, April 15, with carts set to roll down Franklyn St. in downtown ...

NANAIMO - A local non-profit hopes they've stumbled upon a golden idea. Nanaimo Women Helping Women are kicking off a fundraiser which runs through April 30, to collect unwanted gold and silver jewell...

NANAIMO - Dan Maertins has never had a hard time finding work, and it's easy to see why. While the 78-year-old Nanaimo man has technically been retired for years, he devotes much of his free time perf...

NANAIMO - Local Mounties are asking for the public's help to locate a woman believed to be in the region or potentially the south Island. Thirty-eight year old Morgan Elizabeth Blanch has 14 outstandi...

NANAIMO - Significant closures are coming to the city's downtown, stemming from a major television production. Work is set to focus around Diana Krall Plaza and select businesses along Wharf St., Skin...