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NANAIMO - Pay parking is expanding around Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. In a bid to ease congestion and demand for parking around the hospital grounds, the City of Nanaimo plans to implement pay ...
Alex Rawnsley Mar 12, 2024
NANAIMO - A long-envisioned new home for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank is starving for a lifeline from the federal government. Already with local, regional and provincial government fi...
Alex Rawnsley Mar 08, 2024
NANAIMO -Cassidy's first community park is within reach following the purchase of a Hallberg Rd. property. The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) announced the nearly half-acre lot at 3483 Hallberg Rd...
Alex Rawnsley Feb 29, 2024
PARKSVILLE - A local non-profit organization intends to build a 36-unit apartment-style building on the city's southern edge. Members of Parksville Lions Housing Society outlined its plans earmarked f...
Feb 23, 2024
NANAIMO - One man was injured, while residents of a newly completed north Nanaimo rental building evacuated in response to a late-night fire. Nanaimo Fire Rescue (NFR) responded to 6010 Hammond Bay Rd...
Feb 21, 2024
LADYSMITH - A planned new City Hall is expected to be topped with rental housing geared toward middle-income earners in Ladysmith. The province confirmed this week the Town of Ladysmith is one of 20 l...
Feb 15, 2024
NANAIMO - Slow, yet steady progress is being made to build hundreds of badly needed supportive and affordable housing units in Nanaimo.In the summer of 2020 a Memorandum of Understanding between the C...
Jan 30, 2024
NANAIMO - A driver luckily sustained only minor injuries after losing control of his car and toppling a traffic light. It happened on Thursday, Jan 18 at about 6:50 a.m. on Rutherford Rd. at Hammond B...
Alex Rawnsley Jan 18, 2024
NANAIMO - A second bid by the City to get electoral approval for a new public works yard is underway. Following a City of Nanaimo procedural error during the initial Alternative Approval Process (AAP)...
Alex Rawnsley Jan 18, 2024
NANAIMO - A portion of a busy south end street is closed to non-local traffic after a resident noticed a small sinkhole forming on Victoria Rd. The City of Nanaimo's general manager of engineering and...
Alex Rawnsley Jan 17, 2024