Nanaimo

"Blanket" property tax increase freeze for Nanaimo businesses off the table

NANAIMO - Every business in Nanaimo won't have their property taxes frozen this year.Nanaimo councillors debated the option to mitigate the property tax increase for Nanaimo businesses in their financ...

Apr 15, 2021

Nanaimo fishing pier off limits for maintenance day

NANAIMO - The well used Fishing and Walking Pier on Nanaimo's waterfront is getting a deep clean.The public amenity will be power washed and checked for it's structural integrity, which will see the p...

Apr 15, 2021

Major TV production Chesapeake Shores returns to Parksville, Qualicum

PARKSVILLE - Cameras are rolling on the first major television production in the Oceanside region since before the pandemic.A total of 10 episodes of Chesapeake Shores will be shot through the spring ...

Apr 15, 2021

New COVID-19 outbreak confirmed in NRGH rehab unit

NANAIMO - The Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is once again the site of a COVID-19 outbreak. Island Health on Wednesday, April 14 confirmed three patients in the High Intensity Rehab unit within the...

Apr 14, 2021

Active COVID-19 cases across central Island drop

NANAIMO - Island Health reported 50 new COVID-19 cases for the health authority on Wednesday.It marks a continued decline in the average daily increases for the region over the last week.Of the new ca...

Apr 14, 2021

Suspicious death now considered homicide by Nanaimo RCMP

NANAIMO - Local mounties are investigating Nanaimo's first homicide since early 2018.RCMP said the body of 58-year-old Randell Charles Thomas was discovered in bushes near a walking trail along Tamara...

Apr 14, 2021

Nearly 200 lives lost in Nanaimo by fifth anniversary of illicit substance crisis

NANAIMO - April 14, 2021 is a grim day for Nanaimo peer worker Jessy Knight. "I woke up crying, with this heaviness and grief in my heart," she told NanaimoNewsNOW. "I'm mostly just taking this day to...

Apr 14, 2021

Nanaimo NightOwls cancel 2021 season

NANAIMO - Elite college level baseball won't debut at Nanaimo's Serauxmen stadium this summer as originally planned.NightOwls managing partner and GM Jim Swanson told NanaimoNewsNOW the four remaining...

Apr 14, 2021

Micro units gaining traction in Nanaimo as answer to housing crunch

NANAIMO - A notable injection of cramped living quarters are planned in Nanaimo as escalating costs impact builders, buyers and renters.Construction of 28 micro units at three sites in Nanaimo are in ...

Apr 14, 2021

Potential travel restrictions looming as Island Health confirms 52 new cases

NANAIMO - A series of restrictions on inter-provincial travel are possible as both public health and the province eye their next steps to fight COVID-19.Premier John Horgan said on Tuesday, April 13, ...

Apr 13, 2021