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Man jailed for high-risk crash at Nanaimo Parkway construction project

NANAIMO - An explanation behind the dangerous and perplexing actions of a young driver on a closed section of highway remains a mystery. Kaden Nelson Brooks, 21, received a nine month jail sentence af...

Aug 31, 2024

Clippers open training camp for 2024-25 BCHL season

NANAIMO - Nearly 40 players will be broken into two teams for Clippers training camp.The team will hold ice sessions at Frank Crane Arena Friday, Aug. 30 to Sunday, Sept. 1 ahead of a four game presea...

Aug 30, 2024

Nanaimo-Gabriola candidates shuffle amid BC United/Conservative merger

NANAIMO - The list of candidates vying to represent the newly redrawn provincial Nanaimo-Gabriola Island riding is changing minute by minute. Online profiles and news releases promoting previously ann...

Alex Rawnsley Aug 30, 2024

Ladysmith man avoids jail for beating puppy 'like a punching bag'

Editor's Note: This article contains details of animal abuse. Reader discretion is advised.NANAIMO - A man was fined, handed community service duty and banned from caring for animals for a decade for ...

Alex Rawnsley Aug 29, 2024

Bombs and Big Macs: Nanaimo McDonald's manager honoured with national award

NANAIMO - Arnold Roxas has looked out a drive-through window and seen everything, from cars and trucks to tanks and artillery. Roxas, manager of the McDonald's on Nanaimo's Bowen Rd., was presented wi...

Daryl Major Aug 29, 2024

Driver awarded $3 million settlement after high-speed Nanaimo crash

NANAIMO - A B.C. Supreme Court judge awarded the victim of a high-speed Nanaimo highway crash more than $3 million in damages, lost and future earnings and care costs.Paul Jacques, based at the time o...

Aug 28, 2024

'This had devastating impacts on her life:' extensive harassment campaign targets Nanaimo woman

NANAIMO - A local social worker became the victim of a severe, obsessive mission by a man who refused to leave her alone. Well over two years after Brandon Lee Anderson's campaign against the woman be...

Daryl Major Aug 28, 2024

'This is beyond my imagination:' therapeutic garden opens at Nanaimo care home

NANAIMO - A once barren patch of grass overrun by weeds is now a flourishing garden and gathering area at Kiwanis Village Nanaimo. A little over eight weeks after crews began transforming a 3,000 squa...

Alex Rawnsley Aug 27, 2024

Nanoose golfer looks to continue momentum at Women's Senior Championship

GEORGETOWN, ON - Nanoose Bay's Shelly Stouffer is one of 123 competitors teeing off at the Canadian Women's Senior Championship this week.The event runs from Wednesday, Aug. 27 to Friday, Aug. 29 in G...

Aug 27, 2024

Sweet-toothed suspects sought for Nanaimo school break-in

NANAIMO - A recent local elementary school break-in resulted in a bizarre theft by thieves who apparently had a late night dessert craving. Nanaimo RCMP said on Friday, Aug. 23 around 1 a.m. police re...

Alex Rawnsley Aug 27, 2024