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NANAIMO - With a goal of fostering economic development between multiple local agencies, a Nanaimo-based organization has hired someone for the lead role. Colin Stansfield has been named as the inaugu...

NANAIMO - Pay parking is expanding around Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. In a bid to ease congestion and demand for parking around the hospital grounds, the City of Nanaimo plans to implement pay ...

NANAIMO - A new visitor information centre location is designed to engage with more tourists in Nanaimo instead of those just passing through. After vacating its location on the Nanaimo Parkway at the...

NANAIMO - Just days before spring officially begins, Mother Nature is bringing some balmy weather to the mid-Island. Meteorologists are tracking the development of a high-pressure system set to materi...

VANCOUVER - It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a “bump on the sea floor” where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada’s only known live coral reef....

QUALICUM BEACH - An 80-year-old Alberta man has succumbed to his injuries after being hit by a vehicle while helping another driver and potentially saving her life. In the early morning hours of March...

NANAIMO - A planned four-day trial instead resulted in guilty pleas by a man in a highly unusual municipal bylaw offence case. Darren Gaudreault pleaded guilty to two charges of allowing occupancy to ...

An eruption of magma under the Pacific Ocean floor far off Vancouver Island will be so hot the water will fizz but only scientists will notice. Scientists with Ocean Networks Canada are predicting an ...

NANAIMO - Despite some weather hampering efforts, fishing boats are still making headway on the first round of the annual herring spawn. Seine boats are set to wrap up their work on Monday, March 11, ...

NANAIMO - It was one of the busiest weekends of the year on the local sports calendar. Between national, provincial and regional tournaments and playoff and regular season action there were some big w...