Category Archives: Nanaimo

NANAIMO - Expect a loud alarm on your phone, and interruption of TV and radio broadcasts briefly Wednesday afternoon. The National Public Alerting System is scheduled to conduct a test of B.C.'s Emerg...

Editor's note: This article contains extremely graphic details depicting the sexual abuse of a dog. Reader discretion is strongly advised. NANAIMO - A Qualicum Beach man will spend the next nine month...

PARKSVILE - An extended power outage will inconvenience hundreds of people in downtown Parksville as BC Hydro crews conduct scheduled underground utility work. The planned outage impacts 310 BC Hydro ...

NANAIMO - Extensive academic program cancellations and suspensions are on the chopping block for financially strained Vancouver Island University. A news release on VIU's website co-authored by the sc...

NANAIMO - An apologetic local man accepted his fine and impound of his vehicle after being caught excessively speeding south of the city. BC Highway Patrol officers were working the Trans Canada Hwy. ...

NANAIMO - City Councillors have walked back their approval of substantial planned upgrades at Loudon Park. In front of a standing-room-only crowd on Monday, May 5, Council opted to reconsider their ap...

NANAIMO - A cocaine user struggling to maintain his own habit preyed on some of Nanaimo's most vulnerable by intercepting the B.C. government's safe drug supply program. Ronald Fred Schilling, 68, was...

COMOX - The Canadian Forces Snowbirds have returned to their "second home" in the Comox Valley. They arrived at CFB Comox over the weekend to start their annual spring training, with their first show ...

QUALICUM BEACH - Police in Oceanside are asking for the public's help trying to identify who is placing piles of rocks on the Inland Island Hwy. (Hwy. 19), causing damage to a number of vehicles. Ocea...

NANAIMO - Significant closures apply for most of May for all road users beginning on Monday, May 5 on Northfield Rd. between Bowen and Boxwood roads. Crews conducting significant road surfacing work a...