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Active life expo helping kids get on healthy path
NANAIMO - A sports and healthy living expo hopes to help keep obesity rates low and kids healthy as ever. The fourth annual Active for Life expo goes on May 25 at Maffeo Sutton Park from 10 a.m. to 2 ...
May 24, 2019 The Active 4 Life event is geared towards young kids and their families to ingrain a sense of healthy living and an active lifestyle. (Geoff Hackett)
Nanaimo students lug water on long trek for a cause
NANAIMO - Several hundred Nanaimo students took a lengthy walk while carrying jugs of water to experience the plight of children all over the world. Roughly 450 students trekked from Woodlands Seconda...
May 24, 2019 Hundreds of Nanaimo students took to the E&N Trail on Friday, symbolizing the walk starving and impoverished children have to take every day just for some water. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Nanaimo athletes look for personal bests at Elwood Wylie Memorial Meet
NANAIMO - The Rotary Bowl is set to be the hub for the biggest local track and field event of the season.The Elwood Wylie Memorial Meet goes from May 24 to 26 at the Rotary Bowl, celebrating more than...
May 23, 2019 Phillip Vannini
City of Parksville spends $500k to alter new supportive housing project
Parksville councillors are making significant changes to a nearly $7-million, 52-unit supportive housing complex only a month before it opens. The City of Parksville announced Tuesday it repaid a $492...
May 23, 2019 Orca Place on Corfield Rd. S., pictured under construction here, will have the space for a cold weather shelter but won't be able to use it. (Mara Kat/Facebook)
Mid-island shellfish industry rebounds with publicity push
NANAIMO - After two rough years, the shellfish industry in the mid-island is working to promote its farmers and rebuild trust. In both 2017 and 2018, norovirus illnesses were linked to the consumption...
May 22, 2019 There was no norovirus outbreak tied to Baynes Sound shellfish growers in 2019 and the industry is capitalizing on the good news. (File photo/NanaimoNewsNOW)
'It's extremely rare:' bear roams Protection Island
NANAIMO - Conservation officers are tracking the whereabouts of a black bear which made rare visits to Protection and Newcastle Islands.Stuart Bates of the BC Conservation Officer Service said numerou...
May 22, 2019 Several sightings were made of this black bear on Protection Island on Sunday, May 19. (Joanne Leslie/Facebook)
23-year-old loses life after early-morning ATV accident south of Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A 23-year-old man has passed away after losing control of his ATV while enjoying an early-morning ride with friends. Nanaimo RCMP said the accident happened around 2 a.m. on Sunday, May 19 n...
May 22, 2019 A logging road on South Forks Rd. near where an ATV rider tragically lost his life. (Google Earth)
Trees vandalized and destroyed in developing Parksville suburb
PARKSVILLE - Important landscaping in an under-development Parksville subdivision is no more after a destructive case of vandalism. The City of Parksville, along with Oceanside RCMP, said 30 trees pla...
May 21, 2019 More than $30,000 in damage was done to trees in the Cedar Ridge area. (City of Parksville)
Nanaimo child molester sentenced to 3 years in prison
NANAIMO - After taking advantage of a 10-year-old girl for more than a year, a disgraced Nanaimo man will spend the next three years in a federal prison. Shane Rodocker was sentenced at provincial cou...
May 21, 2019 Shane Rodocker will spend two-and-a-half years in a federal prison for molesting a 10-year-old girl. (RCMP)
Nanaimo-area writers win big in short fiction contest
NANAIMO - Emerging voices from Nanaimo's art scene now have wind in their creative sails.Several local writers won or earned honourable mentions at the Islands Short Fiction Contest, presented in late...
May 20, 2019 Several Nanaimo-area writers have more confidence in their writing after several big wins.