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Nanaimo’s active transportation: how we got here, contentious projects & what’s to come
NANAIMO - Active transportation is centre stage for the City’s vision of what Nanaimo will become over the next 20 years. The addition of bike lanes and improved pedestrian infrastructure has dr...
Alex Rawnsley Mar 11, 2021
Cedar elementary added back to Island Health COVID-19 school exposure list
NANAIMO - Cedar elementary has experienced another series of COVID-19 exposure events. School District 68 confirmed in a Wednesday night tweet, the school had two exposure events on March 8 and 10. As...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 10, 2021
Nanaimo’s Dylan Coghlan lands hat trick with Vegas Golden Knights
NANAIMO - What started as his first NHL goal for a Nanaimo defenseman turned into a memorable night for the rookie. Dylan Coghlan with the Vegas Golden Knights netted all three goals for Knights in th...
Spencer Sterritt Mar 10, 2021
Nearly 12,000 people given first COVID-19 vaccine dose in last 24 hours
NANAIMO - B.C.’s shift away from second doses of COVID-19 vaccine is in full swing. Ahead of the opening of mass vaccination clinics on March 15, the province said it had administered 355,340 do...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 10, 2021
Herring roe fishery opens in Strait of Georgia
NANAIMO - Fleets of fishing boats are in the waters throughout the Strait of Georgia for the annual commercial herring fishery in the Strait of Georgia. Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirmed the annua...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 10, 2021
Ladysmith Museum benefits from COVID-19 recovery fund
LADYSMITH - Provincial funding awarded to the Ladysmith and District Historical Society will see the local museum improved. A news release said $89,000 will better protect artifacts and improve the bu...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 10, 2021
Number of new COVID-19 cases drops significantly in Island Health
NANAIMO - The number of new COVID-19 cases plummeted for Island Health but it remains to be seen if it’s a fluke or beginning of a trend. Island Health confirmed only eight new COVID-19 cases we...
NanaimoNewsNOW Mar 09, 2021
VIJHL officially cancels remainder of 2020/21 season
NANAIMO - The Vancouver Island Junior B Hockey League is pulling the plug on its season. A statement from VIJHL president Simon Morgan released Tuesday, March 9 said with no clear path forward, it mad...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 09, 2021
First new hotel in more than a decade opens in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A new hotel stands out amid the older-style homes and empty lot just west of downtown Nanaimo. The 45-room Quality Inn hotel at 440 Selby St. between Franklyn and Albert St. is now open. Acc...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 09, 2021
Oceanside RCMP investigating complicated stabbing
PARKSVILLE - Police are sifting through the few details available from an early morning stabbing. Oceanside RCMP were called to the 900 block of Fairdowne Rd. in Parksville around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday,...
NanaimoNewsNOW Staff Mar 08, 2021