Nanaimo

Out-of-work Coast Bastion staff demand return to Nanaimo hotel

NANAIMO - Active negotiations between a local hotel and union workers have spilled out onto the streets.Around 50 members of UNITE HERE Local 40 and other supporters demonstrated outside the Coast Bas...

Sep 24, 2021

B.C. vaccination rates top 80 per cent with 66 new Island Health COVID-19 cases

NANAIMO - Four out of every five people aged 12 and up in British Columbia are considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19.An update from the province on Friday, Sept. 24 showed 3.71 million eligible...

Sep 24, 2021

Weapons, pipe-bomb and drugs seized after prolonged search

NANAIMO - An observant general duty officer helped remove a sizeable quantity of weapons from city streets.Around 9 p.m. on July 25, a Nanaimo RCMP officer spotted a distinctive white Lexus driving ne...

Sep 24, 2021

Road construction worker killed after apparent drunk driver speeds through work zone south of Nanaimo

NANAIMO - One person is dead and another was taken to hospital following an overnight crash on Hwy. 1 involving an apparent drunk driver.Police and emergency crews were called to the scene around midn...

Sep 24, 2021

Nanaimo man celebrates 1,500th summit of Mt. Benson

NANAIMO - A love affair which started 20 years ago recently reached a major milestone.Kevin White celebrated his 1,500th ascent of Mt. Benson, just west of Nanaimo, on Tuesday, Sept. 21. It was the cu...

Sep 24, 2021

Total COVID-19 cases in Island Health crests 8,000, 69 new

NANAIMO - Island Health passed another milestone in its COVID-19 case counts.The health authority crested the 8,000 total case tally, dating back to the start of the pandemic, now at 8,045. Of the tot...

Sep 23, 2021

Regional District of Nanaimo scales back water restrictions following heavy rains

NANAIMO - The drought which gripped the mid-Island through the warm, summer months is officially over.Multiple rounds of rainfall in recent weeks allowed the Regional District of Nanaimo to move down ...

Sep 23, 2021

'They dive through dumpsters:' return of shredding event aims to stop identity thieves

NANAIMO - Local Mounties are offering a way to stop identity thieves in their tracks.The Nanaimo and Ladysmith branches of the RCMP's Crimestoppers program will again host a shredding event between 11...

Sep 23, 2021

ICU's at 20-week high with majority of patients unvaccinated, 76 new Island Health cases

NANAIMO - Available space in provincial intensive care units is dwindling courtesy a steady rise in serious hospitalizations.The province reported 324 people hospitalized as of Wednesday, Sept. 22 inc...

Sep 22, 2021

1 person injured in Highway 19 crash at Horne Lake

QUALICUM BEACH - A collision involving two trucks on the Inland Island Hwy. near Qualicum Beach sent one person to hospital in serious, but stable condition.BC Emergency Health Services responded to a...

Sep 22, 2021