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Nanaimo airport eyeing new domestic & vacation flights through $29M upgrade plan

NANAIMO - A host of infrastructure and safety upgrades are penciled in for Nanaimo Airport.The Airport Commission released its investment plan for the next five years, budgeting $28.8 million in capit...

Dec 23, 2020

Suspected drunk driver damages several vehicles in loud late-night wreck

NANAIMO - A series of bangs rang out in a north Nanaimo neighbourhood after a suspected impaired driver bounced his car off several parked vehicles.It happened Tuesday Dec. 22 around 11:45 pm on Uplan...

Dec 23, 2020

Survivor calls on Trudeau to release St. Anne's residential-school abuse documents

OTTAWA - Residential school survivor Evelyn Korkmaz is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to release thousands of documents that detail the sexual and physical abuse of thousands of Indigenous c...

Dec 23, 2020

Top Stories of 2020: What the COVID happened this year?

NANAIMO - COVID-19 changed society in ways no one could have expected in 2020. In the span of two weeks, the pandemic which had severely affected countries like China, Spain and Italy, arrived on Cana...

Dec 22, 2020

First COVID-19 vaccinations occur on Vancouver Island, nine new cases announced

NANAIMO - Efforts to vaccinate frontline health care workers in Island Health have officially begun.The first of 1,950 doses of the approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was administered to Dena Scriven, a...

Dec 22, 2020

Nanaimo youth ticketed for breaking COVID-19 protocols in school parking lot

NANAIMO - Police "brought the hammer down" on young people partying in a Nanaimo school parking lot. Eleven teenagers were each given a $230 ticket for not following COVID-19 protocols near midnight o...

Dec 22, 2020

Provisional 2021 property tax increase set at 3 per cent

NANAIMO - Residents have a snapshot of their 2021 property tax bill. Nanaimo councillors passed three readings of the 2021 property tax increase and budget during the council meeting on Monday, Dec. 2...

Dec 22, 2020

Nanaimo RCMP K9 officer sued for alleged 'reckless, lawless & evil actions' during arrest

NANAMO - A Nanaimo man wants a local Mountie held accountable for what he describes as excessive force causing physical, psychological and emotional trauma.David Alan Banford's civil claim filed in BC...

Dec 22, 2020

Our Favourite Stories of 2020: Woman attacks cougar in bid to save dog at Nanaimo River

NANAIMO - A story that stands out from 2020 fits perfectly with how wild a year it was.Cougar sightings alone are quite rare and typically almost never result in a physical interaction and over a 17 y...

Dec 21, 2020

COVID-19 vaccine lands in Island Health, 21 new cases over weekend

NANAIMO - The only approved COVID-19 vaccine has landed on Vancouver Island.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said during her briefing on Monday, Dec. 21, a second delivery of the Pfizer/BioN...

Alex Rawnsley Dec 21, 2020