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Kids basketball rec league in Nanaimo offering up sport and life skills

NANAIMO - A weekly rec league program aims to build up basketball and life skills for local children.Island Swish offers skills and mini games to students from kindergarten to grade 8 over an eight we...

Jan 28, 2022

Parliament Hill girds for massive truck convoy protest

The first trucks in a massive national convoy that was organized to protest the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border drivers are due to arrive in the Ottawa area today. The c...

Jan 28, 2022

Federal prison sentence issued for man caught in significant Nanaimo drug bust

NANAIMO - A longtime drug addict was handed six years in prison following a high-profile drug seizure in downtown Nanaimo. Terrance Guy Virus, 40, who pleaded guilty to four drug trafficking charges i...

Ian Holmes Jan 28, 2022

Two goals from Gerrie leads Clippers to 4-3 win over Grizzlies

NANAIMO - Keighan Gerrie's two goals led the offense and Jed Baliotti's 51 saves sparked the defence in the Clippers 4-3 road win over the Grizzlies.Nanaimo built up a 3-0 lead in the first 23 minutes...

Jan 27, 2022

Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district adds to electric bus fleet

NANAIMO - Fully electrifying Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools' bus fleet appears within reach over the next several years. The seat belt-equipped fleet now stands at four after the arrival of two new ...

Jan 27, 2022

SD68 firms dates of COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff & contractors

NANAIMO - School District 68 provided details of its recently announced vaccination mandate for their staff, teachers and contractors.The Board of Trustees for Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools heard d...

Jan 27, 2022

Man charged with extended assault of woman in her Nanaimo home skips court again

NANAIMO - Arrest warrants are piling up for a man facing serious charges for alleged offences in Nanaimo and Gabriola Island.A Nanaimo judged issued arrest warrants for Heath Henry Handy, 50, on Tuesd...

Jan 26, 2022

Loaded shotguns & homemade bomb among haul from Nanaimo traffic stop

NANAIMO - What originally looked like a routine traffic stop turned into a substantial bust by local Mounties.RCMP media liaison officer Cst. Gary O'Brien said an officer spotted a suspicious older mo...

Jan 26, 2022

Vaccine card program extended through June as hospitalizations remain high

NANAIMO - B.C.'s provincial health officer still believes the province is on a downward slide from the fifth wave of COVID-19.Dr. Bonnie Henry said the trend of new cases is continuing to work down, h...

Jan 25, 2022

Arsonists target four Nanaimo portable toilets

NANAIMO - Local Mounties are investigating after a string of fires were apparently deliberately set inside public portable toilets throughout the city.Nanaimo Fire Rescue crews were called out to four...

Jan 25, 2022