Category Archives: Nanaimo
Top Stories of 2025: Groundbreakings at Nanaimo hospital met with capital project frustrations
NANAIMO - 2025 marked a year of some tangible progress on healthcare delivery for mid-Island residents, but also one of frustration and seemingly spinning wheels.One theme was constant through the yea...
Dec 30, 2025
Nanaimo car dealership tops BC Hydro list for 'most memorable outages' of 2025
NANAIMO - Line workers and repair crews with the provincial power utility deal with a wide array of tricky calls throughout the year.However, a green Godzilla mascot in Nanaimo easily topped the list ...
Dec 30, 2025
'Surreptitious' crabber catches $3,000 fine for keeping undersized crabs off Nanaimo pier
NANAIMO - One man was given a large fine after being caught with undersized crabs at the Nanaimo fishing dock earlier this year. Ronglin Zhang, 70, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing five illeg...
Dec 30, 2025
Top Stories of 2025: Crews complete arduous first leg of Commercial St. overhaul
NANAIMO - The old saying 'no pain, no gain' rang true for a contentious, noise-filled, delayed facelift to a key portion of Nanaimo's downtown. Originally scheduled to be done between early September ...
Dec 29, 2025
Lotto ticket sold in Nanaimo worth $500,000
NANAIMO - Lady Luck continues to favour mid-Island lotto players.Just four days after a Parksville player won $500,000 on a Dec. 23 Lotto Max draw, a ticket sold in Nanaimo has done the same through t...
Dec 29, 2025
'Over 200 appointments' available for holiday blood drive in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Appointments needto be filled for a mobile blood clinic in the Harbour City over the holidays. Staff from Canadian Blood Services will be set up at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre fro...
Dec 29, 2025
Top Stories of 2025: notorious Gabriola Island couple's illegal fishing
NANAIMO - Described by a judge as having "the longest record of fisheries act violations in Canadian history," a Gabriola Island man and his wife were sentenced for multiple fisheries violations this ...
Dec 28, 2025
Top Stories of 2025: Conduct, fencing & land purchases make for eventful Nanaimo Council meetings
NANAIMO - While far from the national headlines made some seven to eight years ago, local council discussions and decisions still garnered a lot of attention this year. Citing threats made to staff, i...
Dec 27, 2025
Several people rescued 'from smoke and heavy flame' by firefighters at south Nanaimo motel blaze
NANAIMO - Just over a half dozen people were taken to hospital after an early morning fire engulfed a motel. Flames broke out shortly before 3 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 26 at the Value Lodge on Nicol St., ...
Dec 26, 2025
'They're all brave souls:' hundreds expected for Nanaimo polar bear plunge
NANAIMO - A holiday tradition for over 60 years will write another chapter on Boxing Day. Well over 300 people are expected to brave chilly Departure Bay in Nanaimo on Friday, Dec. 26 for the annual F...
Dec 26, 2025