Health

Suicide bereavement services expand across Vancouver Island on Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day

NANAIMO - A valuable service is expanding to mark Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day. The Nanaimo-based Vancouver Island Crisis Society now offers group sessions over Zoom for those bereaved by suicide ...

Alex Rawnsley Sep 10, 2020

'I'm making the best of it:' Nanaimo man up for multiple myeloma fight

NANAIMO - An incurable blood cancer diagnosis was hard for Fenix Theuerkorn to accept, but the Nanaimo man said there is reason to be hopeful.Theuerkorn learned he had multiple myeloma in 2017 after s...

Sep 05, 2020

Community transmission of COVID-19 remains below threshold across Island & B.C.

NANAIMO - No change for the Island Health region, but the province provided a detailed look at community transmission of COVID-19 on Thursday.Eighty-nine new cases were confirmed elsewhere in B.C. as ...

Sep 03, 2020

Server saves man's life at Nanaimo burger restaurant

NANAIMO - What a Nanaimo server at first thought was a joke turned serious and saw her take heroic action. Jillian Baird, a server at Top Notch Burgers in downtown Nanaimo, went to check on a customer...

Sep 03, 2020

3 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Island Health

NANAIMO - A high mid-week surge in new COVID-19 cases brought three new to the Island Health region. A joint statement from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and health minister Adrian Dix on...

Sep 02, 2020

City of Nanaimo signals to province for a 60-bed supportive shelter

NANAIMO - City council is throwing its weight behind a possible 60-bed supportive shelter in Nanaimo.. Councillors voted 7-2 on Monday, Aug. 31 to send a letter to the province expressing interest in ...

Sep 01, 2020

'Superheroes' needed to manage COVID-19 as province heads into flu season

NANAIMO - The province has shone the bat signal for 'superheroes' to be the ones who lead BC through a tricky fall and winter flu season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie...

Aug 31, 2020

Canada signs deal with Novovax to get 76 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

OTTAWA - The federal government has a deal with a third vaccine developer to get access to an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as early as next spring. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Montreal t...

Aug 31, 2020

Memorial wall created as overdose crisis in Nanaimo takes heavy toll

NANAIMO - The International Overdose Awareness Day event in Nanaimo will have a markedly more solemn tone in 2020.Though the event on Monday, Aug. 31 has always commemorated the hundreds lost to fatal...

Aug 31, 2020

Nanaimo curlers gearing up for modified COVID-19 season

NANAIMO - Local curlers will see a host of tweaks and changes in a bid to have a COVID-free year.The Nanaimo Curling Club has instituted many rules and mandates designed to comply and exceed COVID-19 ...

Aug 30, 2020