Category Archives: Nanaimo
Speed limit reduction pitched for Nanaimo's downtown, hospital and university neighbourhoods
NANAIMO - A new pilot project is being pitched to see how reducing vehicle speeds in certain neighbourhoods will improve pedestrian safety.The future of a City staff-proposed $225,000 project will be ...
Apr 22, 2022
Librarians ratify new four-year collective agreement with Vancouver Island Regional Library
NANAIMO - Vancouver Island Regional Library's librarians are officially back on the job with a new contract.The BC General Employees Union, which represents nearly 50 librarians across the VIRL networ...
Apr 22, 2022
'It has made a huge difference:' empties program provides critical cash injection for local food bank
NANAIMO - When bins converting empties into cash debuted five years ago, the head of Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank was excited about the potential.However, executive director Peter Sin...
Apr 22, 2022
B.C.’s walk-in clinic patients waiting longer than anywhere else in Canada
NANAIMO - British Columbians are spending more time than their Canadian counterparts waiting in a doctor's office.A new survey from Medimap looked at average wait times from its participating walk-in ...
Apr 21, 2022
VIDEO: Free vet clinic continues to serve Nanaimo's four-pawed friends
NANAIMO - A free vet clinic remains committed to checking over furry friends and family members, free of charge. Helping Paws community clinic runs roughly once a month at St. Peter's Church on Machle...
Apr 21, 2022
VIDEO: Nanaimo RCMP arrest 'roof top crawler' after several downtown businesses broken into
NANAIMO - A suspect used an unusual strategy to allegedly break into multiple downtown businesses. A 27-year-old man was arrested after police say he used a stolen ladder to get on top of a heritage b...
Apr 21, 2022
Nanaimo's Growing Opportunities co-op facing rising water bills and infrastructure challenges
NANAIMO - The Growing Opportunities Farm Community Co-Op have some water woes and need a little help.A record drought through summer 2021 amplified some existing infrastructure challenges and meant th...
Apr 21, 2022
'Never really had time to learn because you're looking out for yourself:' residential school survivors learning vital literacy skills
NANAIMO - "We never really had time to learn because we always had our guards up."Often, self-protection and survival took precedence over reading, writing and arithmetic for residential school surviv...
Apr 21, 2022
Several black bears roaming Cinnabar Valley and Extension neighbourhoods
NANAIMO - Numerous reports of human food conditioned bears in rural south Nanaimo have been made to the BC Conservation Officer Service over the past several weeks.Caitlin Bickford with the BC Conserv...
Apr 20, 2022
Nanaimo financing $2.5 million action plan for downtown safety and social disorder
NANAIMO - City councillors gave unanimous support for a new direction in battling growing safety and social disorder issues in the downtown core. The Downtown Nanaimo Safety Action Plan, presented to ...
Apr 20, 2022 Social disorder and security issues are being directly addressed through a new action plan combining a series of new and revamped positions and programs. (Jordan Davidson/NanaimoNewsNOW)