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NANAIMO - Upgrades are substantially complete to the City’s latest piece of their active transportation puzzle. Replacement of underground storm sewer and water main on Fourth St., between Harew...

NANAIMO - A man busted for trying to meet up with a 14-year-old boy who turned out to be a well known vigilante pedophile hunter escaped going to jail. A sentencing hearing hearing for Cory John Lloyd...

NANAIMO - The laying of underwater, fibre optic cable is continuing off the coast of the central Island to better connect communities with his speed internet. Connected Coast are behind the project, m...

NANAIMO - A long, overdue break from cold and wet weather is seeing a rise in small, nuisance bush fires. Nanaimo Fire Rescue crews have responded to an average of two per day over the last two weeks,...

NANAIMO - Snuneymuxw First Nation Chief Mike Wyse is temporarily stepping away from his duties to tend to a personal matter. Wyse announced Tuesday, July 26, a routine medical exams revealed a heart a...

NANAIMO - BC Ferries is preparing to move more than 400,000 passengers and nearly 140,000 vehicles this August long weekend. To ensure they are able to meet demand, they will be operating at maximum c...

NANAIMO - A heat warning remains in effect for the region, bringing into focus the dangers associated with prolonged hot weather. The forecasted daytime high for Nanaimo on Tuesday, July 26 is 35 degr...

NANAIMO - Athletes from across the mid-Island have returned home with heavy hardware from the recent BC Summer Games. Held in Prince George between Thursday, July 21 and Sunday, July 24, up to 3,600 p...

NANAIMO - The lawyer for Steven Michael Bacon says his client intends to change his stance on a first-degree murder charge. During an appearance in B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo on Monday, July 25, Gi...

MASKWACIS, ALTA. - Pope Francis delivered an apology to Indigenous residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alta., after a visit to the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School on Mon...