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NANAIMO - Local Mounties are looking for a man in his 40’s who robbed a store at gun point. A 911 call was made around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26 from a business in the University Village near...

PARKSVILLE - A mass migration of geese are set to return to local beaches over the coming weeks. It means restrictions will be placed on beaches in Parksville and Qualicum, preventing dogs on the beac...

NANAIMO - Don’t stow the jackets in the back recesses of the closet just yet, we still have a ways to go this winter. There was an overwhelming consensus among both two and four legged weather p...

NANAIMO - A sizeable cash reward is being offered for information regarding the disappearance of Lisa Marie Young. An anonymous donor has put up $50,000 USD (around $63,000 CAD) for information which ...

NANAIMO - A man’s continual sexual abuse of his own daughter for years resulted in a sentence to be served in the community and not in prison. The offender pleaded guilty to sexual interference ...

NANAIMO - Two simultaneous but otherwise unrelated outbreaks of COVID-19 have expanded. A total of 31 patients at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have tested positive over the course of two outbreak...

NANAIMO - Hospitalization admissions continue to be some of the highest we’ve ever seen in B.C., however the province’s top doc said the system is holding. Dr. Bonnie Henry said case numbe...

NANAIMO - When the Nanaimo Senior A Timbermen play their first game in nearly three years, they’ll have a new face behind the bench. Tewanee Joseph was officially named the club’s new head...

NANAIMO - A local homeowner had a close brush with a house fire over the weekend. Multiple engines from Nanaimo Fire Rescue were called to the 4100 block of Verte Pl. around 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. ...

NANAIMO - For the fourth week in a row, protesters disrupted mid-morning traffic in the city to bring awareness to old growth logging. The Nanaimo chapter of ‘Save Old Growth’, an offshoot...