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Driver awarded $3 million settlement after high-speed Nanaimo crash
NANAIMO - A B.C. Supreme Court judge awarded the victim of a high-speed Nanaimo highway crash more than $3 million in damages, lost and future earnings and care costs. Paul Jacques, based at the time ...
Aug 28, 2024
Opposition Leader Falcon ends BC United election campaign, backs BC Conservatives
British Columbia Opposition Leader Kevin Falcon announced Wednesday that he is suspending BC United’s election campaign and encouraging supporters to instead back the rival B.C. Conservative Par...
Aug 28, 2024
Former Nanaimo Fire Chief awarded King’s Coronation Medal
NANAIMO - The city’s former top firefighter has received a high honour. Karen Fry, chief of Nanaimo Fire Rescue from summer 2017 to early January 2021, was one of 54 recipients of the King Charl...
Aug 28, 2024
‘Embarrassment factor is huge on these:’ dating app extortion costs Nanaimo man money
NANAIMO - Police say it’s never a good idea to send a nude photo of yourself to someone on the internet. It’s a piece of advice a local man learned after being extorted by online criminals...
Aug 28, 2024
Natural gas venting in Nanoose spreading smell across Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Some maintenance on natural gas lines in the Nanoose Bay area is having some unpleasant consequences elsewhere. Complaints to FortisBC and local fire departments skyrocketed early morning on...
Aug 28, 2024
‘This had devastating impacts on her life’ extensive harassment campaign targets Nanaimo woman
NANAIMO - A local social worker became the victim of a severe, obsessive mission by a man who refused to leave her alone. Well over two years after Brandon Lee Anderson’s campaign against the wo...
Aug 28, 2024
‘This is beyond my imagination:’ therapeutic garden opens at Nanaimo care home
NANAIMO - A once barren patch of grass overrun by weeds is now a flourishing garden and gathering area at Kiwanis Village Nanaimo. A little over eight weeks after crews began transforming a 3,000 squa...
Aug 27, 2024
‘A big effort:’ voter registration cards in the mail from Elections BC
NANAIMO - Voter registration is well underway ahead of this fall’s provincial election. Elections BC is in the process of sending out roughly two million voter registration notices to the approx...
Aug 27, 2024
Nanoose golfer looks to continue momentum at Women’s Senior Championship
GEORGETOWN, ON - Nanoose Bay’s Shelly Stouffer is one of 123 competitors teeing off at the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship this week. The event runs from Wednesday, Aug. 27 to Friday,...
Aug 27, 2024
Sweet-toothed suspects sought for Nanaimo school break-in
NANAIMO - A recent local elementary school break-in resulted in a bizarre theft by thieves who apparently had a late night dessert craving. Nanaimo RCMP said on Friday, Aug. 23 around 1 a.m. police re...
Aug 27, 2024
