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Province implementing one-day public health order for New Year's Eve

NANAIMO - Liquor sales are being banned after 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve to hopefully curb gatherings as 2020 comes to a close. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry ordered the sale of liquor must...

Dec 30, 2020

Avalanche threat rises on Vancouver Island

COURTENAY - Heavy snowfall in the mountains coupled with strong winds increased the avalanche threat on Vancouver Island.A Vancouver Island Avalanche Bulletin (VIAB) statement showed the alpine's slid...

Dec 30, 2020

COVID-19 outbreak at Nanaimo care home continues to expand

NANAIMO - The number of residents at a Nanaimo care home with COVID-19 has more than doubled. Island Health announcing an additional three additional cases of COVID-19 at the Chartwell Malaspina Care ...

Dec 29, 2020

Roughly 9 new COVID-19 cases per day within Island Health over Christmas holiday

NANAIMO - There was little change in Island Health COVID-19 trends over the Christmas holiday.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 44 new cases of COVID-19 in Island Health from Christ...

Dec 29, 2020

Top Stories of 2020: High cost of long-promised E&N rail line revealed

NANAIMO - There's now a price tag attached to the dream of having rail service restored on Vancouver Island. In late April, the ministry of transportation and infrastructure released its long awaited ...

Dec 29, 2020

COVID stress dominates as crisis line operators wrap busy year

NANAIMO - Increasingly relied upon crisis line staff serving Vancouver Island are seeing first-hand effects COVID-19 is having on the people they serve.Nanaimo based Vancouver Island Crisis Society (V...

Dec 29, 2020

One additional COVID-19 case confirmed in long-term care home outbreak

NANAIMO - Island Health has confirmed COVID-19 spread within one unit of a long-term care home in Nanaimo.A release just before 5:30 on Monday, Dec. 28 said an additional case of COVID-19 was found at...

Dec 28, 2020

Top stories of 2020: Hot coffee hurled at fast-food worker ignites community anger

NANAIMO - A widely viewed video capturing shocking behaviour of a woman at a Nanaimo drive-thru clearly stood out as a top local story in 2020.The Oct. 13 incident caused minor burns to a man on the o...

Dec 28, 2020

COVID-19 outbreak declared in Nanaimo long-term care home

NANAIMO - A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at a Nanaimo long-term care home for the first time. Island Health announced late on Sunday, Dec. 27 one resident at the Chartwell Malaspina Care Reside...

Dec 27, 2020

B.C.'s first case of more contagious U.K. COVID-19 strain found in Island Health

NANAIMO - Island Health is home to the first identified case in B.C. of a more contagious COVID-19 strain. "The individual, who resides in the Island Health region, returned to B.C. from the U.K. on f...

Dec 27, 2020