Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - Local roads are falling apart quicker than crews can repair them, according to those in charge of maintaining them.City councillors heard a request for more of an investment in road repair, ...

NANAIMO - For the third time this year, fencing now surrounds what was a growing homeless encampment in a highly visible portion of the city's downtown.Barriers were erected around private property on...

NANAIMO - Local diners are among Canada's most generous and polite, according to a new survey.Delivery company Uber Eats pulled data from orders submitted through their service to date in 2021, showin...

NANAIMO - If a rental property you see online looks too good to be true, chances are it probably is.The region's increasingly hot rental market is breeding more opportunity for scammers, looking to ta...

NANAIMO - Island Health has confirmed an outbreak of COVID-19 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Four patients in the transitional care unit of the hospital have tested positive, the first of which...

NANAIMO - Demonstrators, staunch in their opposition to some public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, took their message to a Nanaimo shopping centre.Between 150-200 protesters descended o...

NANAIMO - While details are thin on what services will be provided, conceptual work is happening to establish a new cancer facility in Nanaimo.The project is part of a John Horgan re-election promise ...

NANAIMO - Amid no sign the drug toxicity crisis is improving in B.C., the province wants criminal penalities wiped out for people possessing small amounts of illicit drugs.Mental health and addictions...

NANAIMO - Around 200 previously unvaccinated healthcare workers within Island Health have rolled up their sleeves.The province reported, as of Monday, Nov. 1, 480 workers (approximately two per cent) ...

NANAIMO - A hearing this week in BC Supreme Court in Nanaimo will determine if there is enough evidence against an accused murderer to proceed to trial.Steven Michael Bacon is charged with first degre...