Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - A late deal with a traffic management company has helped secure a major component of Bathtub weekend.New provincial safety regulations in the wake of April's Lapu Lapu Festival car attack in...

NANAIMO - City Councillors have unanimously turned down proposed fencing around two City-owned parking lots, despite staff safety concerns.A staff recommendation called for parking lot upgrades includ...

NANAIMO - Add another accolade for a local singer in her growing career.Lauren Spencer-Smith, who was born in Port Alberni but spent much of her formative years in Nanaimo, performed 'O'Canada' at the...

NANAIMO - Following the adoption of changes to parking minimums in the city's downtown, councillors are proceeding to take a further look at public parking city-wide. The City of Nanaimo, alongside co...

NANAIMO - Hot, dry and windy conditions have finally forced the hand of local fire officials. An open fire ban, including the use of campfires, will go into effect across all of Vancouver Island, and ...

NANAIMO - A local man will spend the next five years behind bars after a road rage-linked shooting incident two years ago.Reza Rahiman, 46, was sentenced on Tuesday, July 15, to five years and six mon...

NANAIMO - The largest ever single-item campaign in the Nanaimo District Hospital Foundation's history has come to an end on the best possible note. Through more than 1,400 individual and group donatio...

The B.C. Supreme Court has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole eligibility for 25 years for beating his ex-girlfriend to death with a baseball bat as she slept beside her young daughter i...

NANAIMO - A total fire ban is in place for one central Island municipality, as provincial officials urge caution over water use.Current dry and hot conditions are expected to continue through much of ...

NANAIMO - A suspicious package left outside the main entrance of the Nanaimo RCMP detachment last week which prompted a call to the bomb squad, turned out to be a false alarm. Police reported the "dis...