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NANAIMO - Increasing capacity for proactive, rather than reactive, policing is among the top priorities for local Mounties this year. Presenting to Nanaimo City Council on Monday, May 4, detachment of...

NANAIMO - A large central Nanaimo temporary housing facility is scheduled to remain open well into next year. Facing eviction as a result of the pending construction of Nanaimo's Public Works facility...

NANAIMO - An unseasonably extended stretch of warm and dry weather is forcing the hand of BC Wildfire Service officials. Sweeping fire prohibitions for category one through three fires, ranging from c...

NANAIMO - For the third time in as many days, the Harbour City has rewritten Environment Canada’s record books. The mercury at the Nanaimo Airport monitoring station reached 29.1 degrees Celsius...

PARKSVILLE — Development is proceeding at a highly visible commercial property following a fire nearly four years ago. Councillors unanimously voted in favour of an amended development permit, w...

QUALICUM BEACH — A local vet is agonizingly close to realizing her dream of creating a retirement and hospice home for local dogs and cats. Construction is already underway on a 22-acre property...

NANAIMO - An emerging high school robotics club is taking its talents to Toronto after winning regional and provincial competitions. Dover Bay Robotics is charging up for the Skills Canada National Co...

NANAIMO - The first weekend of May proved to be one for the record books-literally. Data from Environment Canada showed the monitoring station at Nanaimo Airport registered record temperatures on both...

NANAIMO - A major housing development is welcoming its first residents in the city’s downtown. The first phase of a 195-unit, multi-storey rental housing build at the corner of Wallace St. and W...

NANAIMO - Fresh off one of the warmest winters 124 years, the hot and dry conditions appear to be continuing well into the spring. The mean temperature last month was an even 10 degrees Celsius in Nan...