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Canadian Tire employee injured in hit & run, alleged driver arrested

NANAIMO - Police tracked down a motorist accused of hitting a department store worker who was chasing a shoplifter.It happened Tuesday, Dec 29 at around 1 p.m. at the Canadian Tire parking lot in Nana...

Alex Rawnsley Jan 06, 2021

Total COVID-19 case count in Island Health passes 1,000, active cases across B.C. drop

NANAIMO - Island Health's total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases passed a major milestone.Data from the health authority showed nine new cases were confirmed Tuesday, Jan. 5 taking the total number ...

Jan 05, 2021

Foul play ruled out in connection to body found in Nanaimo

NANAIMO - Investigators probing the discovery of a man's body in the Old City Quarter neighbourhood on Boxing Day determined homicide was not a cause of death.A news release from Nanaimo RCMP stated t...

Jan 05, 2021

Powerful wind storm moving across central Vancouver Island

NANAIMO - Batten down the hatches, the year's first major windstorm is here.Environment Canada issued a wind warning on Monday, Jan. 4 with a major Pacific system forecast to move through central Vanc...

Jan 05, 2021

Auxiliary Cst. program discontinued at Nanaimo RCMP detachment

NANAIMO - A once-valuable program is no longer in force at the Nanaimo RCMP detachment. The volunteer Auxiliary Constable program within the detachment was officially shuttered at the end of 2020. Aux...

Jan 05, 2021

Supply and demand sends Nanaimo area property valuations up

NANAIMO - BC Assessment Authority property valuations increased in the Nanaimo area and across the province despite the global pandemic ravaging the economy.2021 assessments used to gauge annual prope...

Jan 04, 2021

Trailblazing Nanaimo fast food manager retires after nearly 50 years

NANAIMO - Nancy Lamont welled up in tears looking back on a fulfilling career she was told would never materialize.The 64-year-old general manager of the Nicol St. McDonald's made her last Big Mac on ...

Jan 04, 2021

Helicopter crash victims identified as parents, two children in family of seven

DEBOLT, Alta. - Four people who died in a helicopter crash on New Year's Day were identified by loved ones Sunday as members of a strong and loving farm family from a tight-knit community in northern ...

Jan 03, 2021

Generosity fuels Great Nanaimo Toy Drive

NANAIMO - The annual Great Nanaimo Toy Drive hit a new high in 2020. Carolyn Iles with the event said families responded like never before to the call for donated gifts and cash to help those struggli...

Jan 03, 2021

VIDEO: Drive-by rally held for Nanaimo long-term care home in midst of COVID-19 outbreak

NANAIMO - A Nanaimo care home is standing in solidarity with a long-term care home currently suffering a COVID-19 outbreak. Staff from the Eden Gardens dementia care clinic honked their horns and wave...

Jan 02, 2021