Nanaimo

'Keeps getting busier and busier:' Prom Closet in Nanaimo offering grad attire Island-wide

NANAIMO - With spring right around the corner, grade 12 students across Vancouver Island are getting ready for prom season, and one local group of volunteers wants to make sure they all look their bes...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 07, 2025

Deaths among central Island homeless spike: BC Coroners Service

NANAIMO - Unhoused people on the mid-Island died at double the rate in 2023 compared to the year prior, according to alarming new data. New data published by the BC Coroners Service on Friday, March 7...

Mar 07, 2025

'A long episode of rain:' rainfall warning issued for Oceanside

PARKSVILLE - After a recent run of relatively pleasant weather, Mother Nature is preparing to point a fire hose right at Oceanside. Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning on Friday, March 7, for...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 07, 2025

Man jailed for violent sexual assaults against vulnerable Nanaimo woman

NANAIMO - An offender's developmental and behavioural disorders weren't enough to prevent him from going to jail. Elijah Grier-Gaiga, 29, was sentenced to federal penitentiary for four years after he ...

Mar 07, 2025

'Absolutely ridiculous:' Nanaimo police charge six for motorcycle 'stunting'

NANAIMO - RCMP officers are cracking down on "stunting". Local Mounties say they charged six different people in January alone under the Motor Vehicle Act for a range of dangerous driving-related inci...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 06, 2025

Vancouver Island Conference Centre boasting another record year

NANAIMO - A notable increase in conferences, trade shows, special events and more is helping boost the bottom line toward profitability for the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. Presenting financial...

Daryl Major Mar 06, 2025

'Hugely disappointed:' Nanaimo hospital cath lab, patient tower absent in B.C. budget

NANAIMO - The province's spending priorities for the year ahead apparently do not include a pair of promised significant local projects.Neither a catheterization lab for cardiac care, nor a new patien...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 05, 2025

Day-long closure of Hwy. 4 planned for debris removal

NANAIMO - The only connection between Vancouver Island's central east and west coasts will close for roughly six hours on Thursday.Contracted crews from the provincial ministry of transportation will ...

Mar 05, 2025

Woman sentenced for death threat against Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP

NANAIMO - Frustrated with her local Member of Parliament's response to an evolving conflict on the other side of the world, a local woman made an egregiously poor judgment decision. Sent on Jan. 13, 2...

Daryl Major Mar 05, 2025

Nanaimo man avoids additional jail time for dealing fentanyl and meth

NANAIMO - A man was spared additional jail time for selling fentanyl and will instead attend a local treatment centre alongside his father. Brandon Whitfield Lee Gregoire, 25, was given a time-served ...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 04, 2025