People

Five new COVID-19 fatalities recorded across B.C., no new cases confirmed for Vancouver Island

NANAIMO - The long weekend is getting started in a tragic fashion. The ministry of health and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced five additional COVID-19 fatalities on Friday, May 15...

Alex Rawnsley May 15, 2020

Comments about off-leash dog sparks fight between Nanaimo seniors

NANAIMO - A picturesque morning walk for a 74-year-old turned violent after he made a comment about an off-leash dog. Nanaimo RCMP said the senior was walking his leashed dog on a trail near Glen Oaks...

May 15, 2020

B.C. schools to partially re-open June 1, attendance is optional

NANAIMO - Schools will be going back in session, albeit in a dramatically altered and scaled-down fashion due to COVID-19.Education minister Rob Fleming announced kindergarten to grade 12 classes will...

May 15, 2020

Snowbirds to conduct Nanaimo fly-by, part of nationwide tour

NANAIMO - If the weather co-operates, the skies above Nanaimo are about to get loud.The Canadian Forces Snowbirds are winding down their nationwide Operation Inspiration tour and are scheduled to swoo...

May 15, 2020

Bowen Rd., Bruce Ave. headline Nanaimo's summer road work season

NANAIMO - A slew of road enhancement and infrastructure replacement projects have begun recently in the city.Crews began tearing up a section of Bruce Ave. between Seventh St. and Eighth St. on May 11...

May 15, 2020

Canada-wide arrest warrant issued for Nanaimo man

NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo are appealing to the public for help in locating a man wanted on a Canada- wide arrest warrant for parole violations.Peter Ludvigson, 45, was supposed to be living at a fam...

May 14, 2020

Parksville man sentenced for defrauding same investors twice, more than 10 years apart

PARKSVILLE - A fraudster had the audacity to first take advantage of investors and then return to the same victims more than a decade later with yet another scam.Shockingly, it worked. James Warring M...

May 14, 2020

Lengthy streak of no COVID-19 case increases on Vancouver Island ends with data error

NANAIMO - After days of keeping the COVID-19 curve flat on Vancouver Island, the total of confirmed cases has increased by one.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry confirmed the 126th active or ...

May 14, 2020

VIDEO: Historic family video tapes missing for 45 years returned to Cedar woman

NANAIMO - The power of social media helped a Nanaimo mother-son duo return invaluable video tapes to family members who assumed they'd never see them again. Chris Wallinger and his mother Wendy Robins...

Maria Doty May 14, 2020 Marion Baker (right) looking over 13 long-lost reels of film formerly owned by her parents and now returned by a Nanaimo family. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

Police bust unlicensed rope-connected motorcycle riders on Hwy. 4

PARKSVILLE - A highly unusual traffic call won't be forgotten by the arresting officer. Two motorcycles tied together with rope while travelling through Coombs on Hwy. 4 the night of Tuesday, May 5 ca...

May 14, 2020