Nanaimo

Another staff member tests positive for COVID-19 at Nanaimo care home

NANAIMO - Island Health has discovered an additional case of COVID-19 at Chartwell Malaspina Care Residence in Nanaimo.In a statement released Saturday, Jan. 23, the health authority announced a staff...

Jan 23, 2021

Fired Nanaimo CAO returns in senior role overseeing Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

NANAIMO - Controversial former City of Nanaimo CAO Tracy Samra has a new job, now with the federal government.Samra, now going by her maiden name of Fleck, was recently hired by the Department of Natu...

Jan 23, 2021

Transit driver performs life-saving CPR on unconscious woman in downtown Nanaimo

NANAIMO - A RDN transit driver is being praised for his heroic, life-saving actions.Terry Keogh was driving his route through downtown Nanaimo when he was flagged down by several people near a bus sto...

Jan 22, 2021

Island Health ends week on subdued note, 14 new COVID-19 cases

NANAIMO - Island Health ended the week with relatively lower counts of new COVID-19 cases. Island Health announced 14 new cases on Friday, Jan. 22. This was the lowest announced by Island Health throu...

Jan 22, 2021

Allegedly impaired wrong-way driver pulled over on highway south of Nanaimo

NANAIMO - RCMP members in an unmarked cruiser heading back to Nanaimo were stunned to see a vehicle going the wrong way on the Trans Canada Hwy.RCMP Cst. Gary O'Brien said the suspect vehicle was view...

Jan 22, 2021

Goal posts set for Island Health's COVID-19 vaccination program

NANAIMO - The steps necessary to provide 8.6 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in B.C. are more clear.The province unveiled the next steps in its ongoing vaccine roll out plan on Friday, Jan. 22. Th...

Jan 22, 2021

Nanaimo paramedics respond to record number of overdose calls in 2020

NANAIMO - Local paramedics handled a record number of overdose calls in 2020, even higher than when the overdose crisis was at its peak.New information from BC Emergency Health Services showed there w...

Jan 22, 2021

Island Health nears new high-water mark for COVID-19 cases

NANAIMO - Island Health again bore the brunt of increasing COVID-19 cases.A joint statement from public health and the province confirmed 564 new cases throughout British Columbia on Thursday.Island H...

Jan 21, 2021

72 new health care support workers to be trained through VIU

NANAIMO - Vancouver Island University is set to play a key role in training the next wave of health care workers in B.C.VIU is among ten post-secondary institutions to receive part of $8.4 million in ...

Jan 21, 2021

TELUS pitches substantial downtown Nanaimo development

NANAIMO - Five hundred people are expected to live in a pair of market priced rental buildings planned for Fitzwilliam St., behind TELUS' central office building.The City of Nanaimo's director of deve...

Jan 21, 2021