Author Archives: Syndicated Content

NANAIMO - New data shows how restrictions are limiting COVID-19 transmission in the Nanaimo and Oceanside areas. The BC CDC showed there were six new cases of COVID-19 within Nanaimo and one in Oceans...

NANAIMO - A host of infrastructure and safety upgrades are penciled in for Nanaimo Airport. The Airport Commission released its investment plan for the next five years, budgeting $28.8 million in capi...

NANAIMO - A series of bangs rang out in a north Nanaimo neighbourhood after a suspected impaired driver bounced his car off several parked vehicles. It happened Tuesday Dec. 22 around 11:45 pm on Upla...

NANAIMO - COVID-19 changed society in ways no one could have expected in 2020. In the span of two weeks, the pandemic which had severely affected countries like China, Spain and Italy, arrived on Cana...

NANAIMO - Efforts to vaccinate frontline health care workers in Island Health have officially begun. The first of 1,950 doses of the approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was administered to Dena Scriven, ...

NANAIMO - Police “brought the hammer down” on young people partying in a Nanaimo school parking lot. Eleven teenagers were each given a $230 ticket for not following COVID-19 protocols nea...

NANAIMO - Residents have a snapshot of their 2021 property tax bill. Nanaimo councillors passed three readings of the 2021 property tax increase and budget during the council meeting on Monday, Dec. 2...

NANAIMO - Councillors have granted an extension to the significant Gordon St. project despite it missing key deadlines. They voted unanimously on Monday, Dec. 21 to push the 10-year tax exemption for ...

NANAMO - A Nanaimo man wants a local Mountie held accountable for what he describes as excessive force causing physical, psychological and emotional trauma. David Alan Banford’s civil claim file...

NANAIMO - A story that stands out from 2020 fits perfectly with how wild a year it was. Cougar sightings alone are quite rare and typically almost never result in a physical interaction and over a 17 ...