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Nanaimo’s Katzberg among Canada’s defending champions at world athletics championships in Tokyo
Canada will send four defending champions to the world athletics championships for the first time in the competition’s history. Hammer throwers Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, 800-metre runner...
Aug 28, 2025
Active wildfires jump as heat warnings continue for parts of B.C.
The number of active wildfires in British Columbia has leapt by about 10 following several days of hot, sunny weather. BC Wildfire Service figures Thursday morning show 78 active blazes, up from 68 on...
Aug 28, 2025
Final downtown Nanaimo Night Market caps summer of uncertainty, change & opportunity
NANAIMO - For one last time this summer, downtown’s Commercial St. will come alive on a Thursday night. The year’s final Commercial Street Night Market, hosted by the Greater Nanaimo Chamb...
Aug 28, 2025
‘I’m sorry this happened:’ Nanaimo man avoids further jail time for shooting trespasser
NANAIMO - A local man has been spared additional jail time after pleading guilty to shooting a trespasser with rubber bullets on New Year’s Day last year. Jeffrey Andrew Benvin, 49, was given a ...
Aug 27, 2025
‘We were all cheering, all hype:’ Nanaimo/Parksville basketball team fall just short at Miami tournament
NANAIMO - A local, player-run basketball team has shown a host of Florida-based peers how Canadians hoop. Nine players from BBL Elite, a youth basketball team with players from Nanaimo, Parksville and...
Aug 27, 2025
Nanaimo & Oceanside narrowly set new temperature records amid August heat wave
NANAIMO - It wasn’t by much, but the mid-Island just experienced its hottest Aug. 26 on record. Preliminary data from Environment Canada showed monitoring stations at both the Nanaimo and Qualic...
Aug 27, 2025
‘You never know which car you’re passing:’ Island police ramping up long weekend enforcement
NANAIMO - The final long weekend of the summer season is approaching. High volumes of traffic on area highways and ferries are expected beginning later this week and extending into Labour Day on Monda...
Aug 27, 2025
Nanaimo property caretaker awaits sentencing for New Year’s Day shooting involving rubber bullets
NANAIMO - A local man is awaiting his sentence for shooting another man multiple times at a south end disposal site. Jeffrey Andrew Benvin, 48, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Aug. 26, to charges of aggrav...
Aug 26, 2025
Special weather statement issued as heat wave extends for Nanaimo & Oceanside
NANAIMO - An unusual late-August heat wave is persisting for a little white yet. Environment Canada issued a special weather statement on Monday, Aug. 25, advising of a “long duration of above s...
Aug 26, 2025
Parliamentary Budget Officer says 3.2 million new homes needed to close housing gap
OTTAWA - Canada needs to build 3.2 million new homes in the next decade to close the housing gap but isn’t on track to do that, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said in a new analysis published ...
Aug 26, 2025
