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Meet eight guinea pigs ready to be your new best friend
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo SPCA has turned into guinea pig city with eight available for adoption. Each brings their own vibrant personality to the table, whether they're shy, funny, bold or cuddly. Guinea...
Jul 15, 2019 Eight guinea pigs are available for adoption from the Nanaimo SPCA. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Road closure allows City to upgrade vital infrastructure on Bruce Avenue
NANAIMO - A major route in the Harewood neighbourhood will be closed for the rest of the summer for planned utility upgrades and construction.Bruce Ave. between Pine St. and Fourth St. will be shut do...
Jul 15, 2019 A planned road closure will impact residents of Bruce Avenue, with City crews upgrading critical infrastructure in the area. (Google Street View)
Nanaimo Clippers bid to host national championship falls short
NANAIMO - If the Nanaimo Clippers are to be playing hockey at a national championship in May 2021, they will have to win their way in. Hockey Canada informed the franchise late last week their bid to ...
Jul 15, 2019 The Nanaimo Clippers' bid to host the 2021 National Junior A Championship has not been successful, with Hockey Canada electing to award the event elsewhere. (Nanaimo Clippers)
Nanaimo free dinner program dismantled after eviction saga
NANAIMO - The dream of offering free hot meals to Nanaimo's most vulnerable from an ideal south-end location has come to an end. The locks were changed and tent ceilings taken down at 150 Nicol St. on...
Jul 15, 2019 The fence and what remains of the Stone Soup free meal program on Nicol St. came down Monday morning in a mad scramble of phone calls and arguments. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
King of the castle: awards handed out at Parksville sand sculpting competition
PARKSVILLE - Imagination and talent are on full display along Parksville's waterfront, where more than 20 of the world's highest quality sand sculptures now stand.Russian Ilya Filimontsev won the solo...
Jul 14, 2019 Ilya Filimontsev of Russia won first place in the solo division of the 2019 Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition in Parksville. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Silly Boat Regatta to fill Maffeo Sutton Park with fun and cheer
NANAIMO - Dozens of Nanaimo sailors will take to the waters for a fierce, brutal and incredibly intense competition to see who has the fastest and silliest boat. The 35th annual Silly Boat Regatta tak...
Jul 12, 2019 Creativity is untamed and wild during the Silly Boat Regatta. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Strike negotiations between union, Western Forest Products slow with disputes over mediators
NANAIMO - A further roadblock was erected on the path towards the end of strike action between the United Steelworkers Union and Western Forest Products. USW 1-1937 president Brian Butler announced Fr...
Jul 12, 2019 The USW says they can't believe Western Forest Products wouldn't want respected mediator Vince Ready working on their dispute. (USW 1-1937)
World's top sand sculpture creators converge on Parksville beach
PARKSVILLE - Well over 100,000 people are anticipated to view some of the world's top sand sculptures on Parksville beach.The 37th annual Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition featuring 22 creatio...
Jul 11, 2019 Peter Vogelaar of Winlaw, B.C., won the 2018 Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition with his Jimi Hendrix inspired piece 'Wild Things.' Vogelaar returns to defend his title in 2019 in the solo division. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Would-be thieves attempt late-night Nanaimo bank robbery
NANAIMO - An attempted bank robbery like something out of a movie was thwarted by the rising sun and loud noise. Two people, one of which is believed to be a woman, were seen by security cameras outsi...
Jul 11, 2019 Two people, one of whom is believed to be a woman, outside Nanaimo's north Scotiabank. (Nanaimo RCMP)
Parksville science students sending project to space
PARKSVILLE - Five cole Ballenas Secondary School students shot for the moon and now their science project will orbit among the stars. The experiment Sprouts in Space will be launched to the Internatio...
Jul 11, 2019 Ecole Ballenas students Marco Loffredi, Victor Kamel, Robert Lachance, Alexander Marshall and Filipe Pereira have achieved a remarkable feat for high school science students. (submitted)