Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - While skies look relatively clear for Santa's trip through the mid-Island, forecasters are calling for a wet and windy Christmas Day. A strong storm is brewing southwest of Vancouver Island ...

NANAIMO - With only a few days to go until Santa arrives, a number of Nanaimo organizations are offering free Christmas meals. The Nanaimo Foodshare Society is hosting a Christmas Eve eve lunch on Mon...

NANAIMO - Built from the ground up, a newly re-designed BMX track in the city is now one of Canada's best. The Marie Davidson BMX Park at Nanaimo's Beban Park unofficially re-opened to riders on Frida...

NANAIMO - In the midst of a prolonged drought, fireworks carelessly set off at a prized north Nanaimo park sparked an out-of-control brush fire. It happened on Friday, July 12 just before 11 p.m. wher...

NANAIMO - Last minute holiday shoppers looking for something locally made are in luck. Island Roots Market, regularly held Wednesday's inside the Centennial Building at Beban Park, are hosting a speci...

NANAIMO - A pair of homicides in 2024 in Nanaimo had the local RCMP detachment's Serious Crimes Unit busy, while several other notable cases were resolved in the courts. The violence started early in ...

NANAIMO - A presently vacant lot near the hospital is poised for re-development. City Councillors unanimously awarded a development permit for a proposed five-storey, 86-unit apartment complex at 1740...

PARKSVILLE - A new report is shedding more light on housing availability in the city, along with what's needed in the next five to 20 years.Prepared by the City's planning department, the Parksville I...

NANAIMO - Warrants have been issued for a pair of people accused of violently robbing a jewelry store along Bowen Rd. Three people smashed into Sonny's Jewellers in the 2200 block of Bowen Rd., near N...

NANAIMO - An extremely close race provincially, which had to be settled by a pair of judicial recounts, was not reflected locally during October's B.C. election. The BC NDP won another term in governm...