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NANAIMO - Local roads are falling apart quicker than crews can repair them, according to those in charge of maintaining them. City councillors heard a request for more of an investment in road repair,...

NANAIMO - For the third time this year, fencing now surrounds what was a growing homeless encampment in a highly visible portion of the city’s downtown. Barriers were erected around private prop...

NANAIMO - Local diners are among Canada’s most generous and polite, according to a new survey. Delivery company Uber Eats pulled data from orders submitted through their service to date in 2021,...

NANAIMO - If a rental property you see online looks too good to be true, chances are it probably is. The region’s increasingly hot rental market is breeding more opportunity for scammers, lookin...

NANAIMO - Three players from the VIU Mariners men’s hockey program have earned league-wide recognition. Fourth year Mariners forward Gavin Rauser was named player of the month by the BC Intercol...

NANAIMO - Island Health has confirmed an outbreak of COVID-19 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Four patients in the transitional care unit of the hospital have tested positive, the first of which...

NANAIMO - Demonstrators, staunch in their opposition to some public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, took their message to a Nanaimo shopping centre. Between 150-200 protesters descended ...

NANAIMO - While details are thin on what services will be provided, conceptual work is happening to establish a new cancer facility in Nanaimo. The project is part of a John Horgan re-election promise...

NANAIMO - The first month of the BCHL season has yielded largely positive results for the Nanaimo Clippers. At 6-3 the Clippers are two points out of first place in the Coastal Division. Coach Darren ...

NANAIMO - Amid no sign the drug toxicity crisis is improving in B.C., the province wants criminal penalities wiped out for people possessing small amounts of illicit drugs. Mental health and addiction...