Author Archives: Syndicated Content

NANAIMO - Calls for assistance to Nanaimo RCMP detachment continued a trend downward last year, reaching their lowest point in five years. Overall, 42,743 calls for service were requested in 2024, a d...

NANAIMO - Frustrated by the limited array of tools available to communicate with his non-verbal, autistic granddaughter, a local man is taking the DIY approach. Thomas Pepler’s four-year-old gra...

NANAIMO - A 26-year-old local man has been charged in relation to the death of a senior in Cedar last year. Justin Kenneth Nicholls was arrested and formally charged Wednesday, Feb. 12 with one count ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says the province’s lowest-paid workers are getting a wage boost to keep pace with inflation. The Ministry of Labour says the minimum wage will increas...

PARKSVILLE - Allowing exhausted migrating geese room to recuperate is behind an annual advisory banning dogs from Oceanside area beaches. In Parksville, Rathrevor Beach is closed between Saturday, Feb...

NANAIMO - It doesn't take a leading architect to conclude new life could be breathed into Vancouver Island Exhibition (VIEx) infrastructure at Beban Park Fairgrounds in Nanaimo. Michelle Solloway, mar...

NANAIMO - Local Mounties are investigating a vehicle fire they deem to be suspicious, involving the car of a former provincial political candidate. Flames were seen coming from a grey Fiat 500 parked ...

NANAIMO - Preliminary site work at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is about to get underway on a major construction project. Development of the B.C. Cancer Centre in Nanaimo will begin with tree rem...

NANAIMO - A jail sentence three years ago evidently didn't deter a Nanaimo man from further exploiting vulnerable children. Keith Minard Gates, 47, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Feb 12 in Nanaimo to a ...

Canada’s premiers were headed to the White House Wednesday afternoon for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's senior advisers, as Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Canada will not st...