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VIDEO: Clippers add top prospect Barnhill as affiliate player

NANAIMO - Just ahead of their final four games to solidify playoff positioning, the Clippers have brought in a highly touted affiliate defenceman.2007-born blueliner Sean Barnhill is a draft pick of t...

Mar 22, 2024

New funding advances additional Nanaimo affordable seniors housing complex

NANAIMO - Fresh off the grand opening of a 62-bed facility near Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, funding has been secured to build its twin. Provincial government funding was awarded through the Com...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 22, 2024

Clippers fight for a road point in 3-2 OT loss to Vipers

NANAIMO - Battling through injury and illness the Clippers earned a point in a 3-2 overtime loss in Vernon.The game was played in front of just a couple of hundred people on the secondary ice sheet at...

Mar 16, 2024

Victoria-based Pacific FC to play exhibition soccer match in Nanaimo

NANAIMO - Pacific FC will bring their brand of Canadian Premier League soccer to the Harbour City.The team will host Vancouver FC in a free exhibition match on Saturday, March 16 at 1:30 p.m. at Q'unq...

Mar 16, 2024

Fast start by Chiefs sinks Clippers in 5-2 loss at Chilliwack

CHILLIWACK - The Clippers got into an early hole against Chilliwack that was just too big to crawl out of.In a 5-2 road loss the Chiefs Jack Sparkes, Caleb Elfering and Matt Argentina scored goals in ...

Mar 15, 2024

VIDEO: Hometown Clipper captain hits 150 game milestone

NANAIMO - Not many BCHL players get to play in 150 regular season games but Clippers captain Brett Merner accomplished the feat recently.He led his hometown team out on Friday, March 8 against the Sur...

Mar 14, 2024

Mariners men's basketball gunning for CCAA title in New Brunswick

NANAIMO - The VIU Mariners journey towards a CCAA men's basketball championship has already been a long one - literally.The travel logistics alone were more than the team bargained for when heading ou...

Mar 13, 2024

Nanaimo girl honoured for helping save grandfather's life

NANAIMO - A family enjoying an outing at sun-filled Maffeo Sutton Park likely wouldn't have been possible without the actions of a quick-thinking girl. Lucia Dell, 7, was at Beban Park Pool with her y...

Daryl Major Mar 13, 2024

Tourism Nanaimo opens relocated visitor centre

NANAIMO - A new visitor information centre location is designed to engage with more tourists in Nanaimo instead of those just passing through.After vacating its location on the Nanaimo Parkway at the ...

Mar 12, 2024

Former construction manager pleads guilty to falsely granting permits

NANAIMO - A planned four-day trial instead resulted in guilty pleas by a man in a highly unusual municipal bylaw offence case. Darren Gaudreault pleaded guilty to two charges of allowing occupancy to ...

Alex Rawnsley Mar 11, 2024