NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses new plans for the Howard Johnson hotel site, reporting about the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to fight the Mt. Hayes wildfire.Chris P., Nanoo...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses recent developments for the city's downtown including new plans for the Jean Burns building site and Commercial St. revitalization.T. McLeod, ...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses nearly-complete upgrades to Front St. in downtown Nanaimo, the rising cost of vet care and parking plans for Westwood Lake.P. Walton, Nanaimo:...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses increasingly high gas prices, Nanaimo's new plastic bag ban bylaw and proposed upgrades to Westwood Lake.L. Davis, Nanaimo: These gas prices a...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature highlight's Wednesday's Day of Listening, where Canadian radio stations and media outlets amplified Indigenous voices in the light of the ongoing discov...

NANAIMO - Wednesday, June 30 is a unique day for news and media outlets across the country.In partnership with the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, NanaimoNewsNOW is participating in a national day of listening involving dozens of Canadian media outlets, including our six sister stations on Vancouver Island.The d...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature offers up three of the many letters we received around recent work on Opal Rd., with the removal of traffic calming barriers installed only a couple of ...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature focuses on easing COVID restrictions on Vancouver Island, graffiti on the new NANAIMO sign and traffic calming through local trouble spots.Mike H., Nana...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature focuses on the ongoing crisis related to toxic drugs and fatal overdoses.G. Opacic, Qualicum Beach: It is worthwhile for media to highlight the tragic l...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature focuses on the progress of Nanaimo's rent bank and a pitch from the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce to freeze increased on property taxes for local business...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature focuses on complex housing challenges for the city's homeless and work by the City of Nanaimo in green-lighting more building and construction in the re...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature focuses on a lack of recycling options in the Parksville and Qualicum region, what brand choice people will have for COVID-19 vaccine and a roundabout p...