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Top stories of 2024: Drug traffickers handed significant sentences

NANAIMO - While drug trafficking convictions at courthouses throughout the country and province are commonplace, the length of sentences handed out in Nanaimo this year didn't go unnoticed. Several he...

Dec 30, 2024

Nanaimo's Bastion/Commercial Street intersection to close while mine void issue addressed

Editor's note: This article was updated at 1:50 p.m. with further context from the City of Nanaimo's manager of engineering projects. NANAIMO - A key intersection in Nanaimo's downtown core will soon ...

Alex Rawnsley Dec 30, 2024

'We're always training:' Nanaimo Fire Rescue constantly brushing up on skills

NANAIMO - A team of firefighters scaling down a high rise building to replicate a potential rescue call is another day at the office for Nanaimo Fire Rescue. The Thursday, Dec. 12 task at the 17-store...

Kyle Ireland Dec 28, 2024

Top Stories of 2024: Key projects advance in Downtown Nanaimo

NANAIMO - Multi-year, extensive upgrades on several fronts to Nanaimo's downtown core focuses on overhauling a pair of critically important streets. The old phrase 'no pain, no gain' applies to ongoin...

Dec 27, 2024

Impaired driving charges laid following catastrophic Qualicum Beach crash

QUALICUM BEACH - A tragic series of events resulting in the death of an elderly man and injuries to the woman he was trying to help led to several charges. Jacob Aaron Pardiac, a 29-year-old Coombs ma...

Alex Rawnsley Dec 27, 2024

Top Stories of 2024: Large brush fire singes Pipers Lagoon Park

NANAIMO - In the midst of a prolonged drought, fireworks carelessly set off at a prized north Nanaimo park sparked an out-of-control brush fire. It happened on Friday, July 12 just before 11 p.m. wher...

Alex Rawnsley Dec 22, 2024

Top Stories of 2024: Homicides and chilling trials keep police and prosecutors busy

NANAIMO - A pair of homicides in 2024 in Nanaimo had the local RCMP detachment's Serious Crimes Unit busy, while several other notable cases were resolved in the courts. The violence started early in ...

Dec 21, 2024

Man secretly snapped pictures of woman changing in Parksville store

NANAIMO - A repeat sex offender who endured a severely challenged early childhood received a non-custodial sentence following a sinister crime of opportunity. Joel Perry, 39, took pictures of a woman ...

Alex Rawnsley Dec 20, 2024

Top Stories of 2024: Deadly year on Nanaimo and Oceanside roads

NANAIMO - A pair of high-profile, and presently unsolved hit-and-runs highlighted the potential dangers of rural roads this year.Police continue investigating a pair of crashes which led to the deaths...

Dec 19, 2024

Nanaimo students pull off large care package collection effort

NANAIMO - An elementary school gym transformed into a packaging assembly line to help those in the region in need of a boost over the winter holidays. Hosted by cole Hammond Bay Elementary School, 450...

Dec 19, 2024