Category Archives: Nanaimo
Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay ferry service set to resume
NANAIMO - A vital connection between Nanaimo and the Lower Mainland is set to re-enter service. The Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay ferry route will resume on June 3, according to BC Ferries.The compan...
May 15, 2020
Annual Nanaimo bathtub race cancelled, organizers hope for fall event
NANAIMO - The waters off the coast of Nanaimo will be relatively calm this summer without dozens of bathtubs racing across the waves. The Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society has decided to cancel the 53rd W...
May 15, 2020
Five new COVID-19 fatalities recorded across B.C., no new cases confirmed for Vancouver Island
NANAIMO - The long weekend is getting started in a tragic fashion. The ministry of health and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced five additional COVID-19 fatalities on Friday, May 15...
May 15, 2020
Comments about off-leash dog sparks fight between Nanaimo seniors
NANAIMO - A picturesque morning walk for a 74-year-old turned violent after he made a comment about an off-leash dog. Nanaimo RCMP said the senior was walking his leashed dog on a trail near Glen Oaks...
May 15, 2020
B.C. schools to partially re-open June 1, attendance is optional
NANAIMO - Schools will be going back in session, albeit in a dramatically altered and scaled-down fashion due to COVID-19.Education minister Rob Fleming announced kindergarten to grade 12 classes will...
May 15, 2020
Snowbirds to conduct Nanaimo fly-by, part of nationwide tour
NANAIMO - If the weather co-operates, the skies above Nanaimo are about to get loud.The Canadian Forces Snowbirds are winding down their nationwide Operation Inspiration tour and are scheduled to swoo...
May 15, 2020
Bowen Rd., Bruce Ave. headline Nanaimo's summer road work season
NANAIMO - A slew of road enhancement and infrastructure replacement projects have begun recently in the city.Crews began tearing up a section of Bruce Ave. between Seventh St. and Eighth St. on May 11...
May 15, 2020
Canada-wide arrest warrant issued for Nanaimo man
NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo are appealing to the public for help in locating a man wanted on a Canada- wide arrest warrant for parole violations.Peter Ludvigson, 45, was supposed to be living at a fam...
May 14, 2020
Lengthy streak of no COVID-19 case increases on Vancouver Island ends with data error
NANAIMO - After days of keeping the COVID-19 curve flat on Vancouver Island, the total of confirmed cases has increased by one.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry confirmed the 126th active or ...
May 14, 2020
VIDEO: Historic family video tapes missing for 45 years returned to Cedar woman
NANAIMO - The power of social media helped a Nanaimo mother-son duo return invaluable video tapes to family members who assumed they'd never see them again. Chris Wallinger and his mother Wendy Robins...
May 14, 2020 Marion Baker (right) looking over 13 long-lost reels of film formerly owned by her parents and now returned by a Nanaimo family. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)