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Clippers open season with 6-3 victory over Capitals

NANAIMO - The Clippers won their fourth straight season opener by beating Cowichan Valley 6-3.The Capitals were up 2-0 six minutes into the game on markers by Luke Lavery and Matteo Lamoureux.Joel Pla...

Sep 22, 2023

New venue for 2023 Gripstrength Kettle Bell Competition

NANAIMO - The seventh annual Gripstrength Kettle Bell Competition is poised to be the biggest ever with nearly 40 lifters scheduled to attend.Competitors are coming from Nanaimo, around the province a...

Sep 22, 2023

Clippers have many new faces for the 2023-24 BCHL season

NANAIMO - There's a new look to the Nanaimo Clippers this year. The team has 17 players on the roster who weren't with the team during their first place run to the top of the Coastal Division in 2022-...

Daryl Major Sep 22, 2023

Former Nanaimo Clipper on the ice as Canucks camp kicks off in Victoria

VICTORIA - Vancouver Islanders can get an up-close look at the Vancouver Canucks over the next few days. The team is set up in Victoria for the next four days with training camp sessions running daily...

Sep 21, 2023

Korean traditional values cited in financial reward following untimely death of Nanaimo teen

NANAIMO - Citing Korean tradition of supporting parents for sacrifices they made, a BC Supreme Court justice awarded $327,000 for hypothetical future awards from a deceased Nanaimo teen.Eric Shimm was...

Alex Rawnsley Sep 21, 2023

Minor roof fire impacts Nanaimo childcare facility

NANAIMO - A fire damaged a childcare facility in Nanaimo's Stephenson Point neighbourhood.Multiple fire engines were called to the former Lifestyle Health and Fitness Centre on Wednesday, Sept. 20 at ...

Sep 20, 2023

Suspect in fatal Nanaimo stabbing remains in jail, judge tosses detention review application

NANAIMO - A co-accused in the disturbing death of a special needs man who was violently stabbed on Nanaimo's waterfront has again been denied pre-trial release. Mark Jayden Harrison, 20, had a detenti...

Alex Rawnsley Sep 20, 2023

John Barsby ready to usher in new high school football season

NANAIMO - The always competitive John Barsby Football teams are poised to get their regular season underway.This year the Bulldogs will have both a AA varsity and AA junior varsity squad.Varsity offen...

Sep 20, 2023

VIDEO: 'Here to celebrate SOGI:' overwhelming support for sexual orientation education at Nanaimo rallies

NANAIMO - Emotions ran high, however a public rally both for and against aspects of the current school curriculum remained largely peaceful. Around six protesters against school curriculum on sexual o...

Alex Rawnsley Sep 20, 2023

'Hundreds and hundreds of rescues:' marine SAR volunteers recognized for 35 years of service

LASQUETI ISLAND - Helping distressed boaters is something the Jones brothers of Lasqueti Island have done over and over again.Described as "critically important" members of Royal Canadian Marine Searc...

Alex Rawnsley Sep 20, 2023