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Province implementing one-day public health order for New Year’s Eve
NANAIMO - Liquor sales are being banned after 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve to hopefully curb gatherings as 2020 comes to a close. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry ordered the sale of liquo...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 30, 2020
Avalanche threat rises on Vancouver Island
COURTENAY - Heavy snowfall in the mountains coupled with strong winds increased the avalanche threat on Vancouver Island. A Vancouver Island Avalanche Bulletin (VIAB) statement showed the alpine’...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 30, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak at Nanaimo care home continues to expand
NANAIMO – The number of residents at a Nanaimo care home with COVID-19 has more than doubled. Island Health announcing an additional three additional cases of COVID-19 at the Chartwell Malaspina...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 29, 2020
Roughly 9 new COVID-19 cases per day within Island Health over Christmas holiday
NANAIMO - There was little change in Island Health COVID-19 trends over the Christmas holiday. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 44 new cases of COVID-19 in Island Health from Chris...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 29, 2020
Top Stories of 2020: High cost of long-promised E&N rail line revealed
NANAIMO - There’s now a price tag attached to the dream of having rail service restored on Vancouver Island. In late April, the ministry of transportation and infrastructure released its long aw...
Spencer Sterritt Dec 29, 2020
COVID stress dominates as crisis line operators wrap busy year
NANAIMO - Increasingly relied upon crisis line staff serving Vancouver Island are seeing first-hand effects COVID-19 is having on the people they serve. Nanaimo based Vancouver Island Crisis Society (...
Ian Holmes Dec 29, 2020
One additional COVID-19 case confirmed in long-term care home outbreak
NANAIMO – Island Health has confirmed COVID-19 spread within one unit of a long-term care home in Nanaimo. A release just before 5:30 on Monday, Dec. 28 said an additional case of COVID-19 was f...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 28, 2020
Top stories of 2020: Hot coffee hurled at fast-food worker ignites community anger
NANAIMO - A widely viewed video capturing shocking behaviour of a woman at a Nanaimo drive-thru clearly stood out as a top local story in 2020. The Oct. 13 incident caused minor burns to a man on the ...
Ian Holmes Dec 28, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak declared in Nanaimo long-term care home
NANAIMO – A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at a Nanaimo long-term care home for the first time. Island Health announced late on Sunday, Dec. 27 one resident at the Chartwell Malaspina Care ...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 27, 2020
B.C.’s first case of more contagious U.K. COVID-19 strain found in Island Health
NANAIMO - Island Health is home to the first identified case in B.C. of a more contagious COVID-19 strain. “The individual, who resides in the Island Health region, returned to B.C. from the U.K...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Dec 27, 2020
