Local News Updates
Regular updates on what’s happening in Nanaimo and on the Salish Sea.
B.C.’s new short-term rental law has come into effect
Students from Vancouver Island University have set up a pro-Palestine camp at VIU’s Nanaimo campus.
People are getting ready to move into a new supportive housing building in Nanaimo.
An anti-old-growth logging protestor and activist has been sentenced on Wednesday, April 24 for her role in blockades at Fairy Creek.
Housing projects continue to be at the forefront of development approvals and are still happening around Nanaimo, said the manager of current planning for the City of Nanaimo.
Nanaimo RCMP has tracked down a stash of bicycles they believed to have been stolen.
The City of Nanaimo through poetry is adding art to the natural landscape of Bowen Park.
A local Parksville brewery is looking for support from the City of Parksville for their application to the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch to change their hours of liquor services.
Patients in Nanaimo with heart disease cannot get access to the care they need and it can lead to suffering poor or sometimes fatal outcomes said a healthcare advocate group.
A local Nanaimo organization that engages vulnerable youth with full-time mental health and well-being programs is looking for funding through the Regional District of Nanaimo to support its program.
The number of people experiencing homelessness in Nanaimo has tripled since 2016 according to the recently published 2023 Nanaimo Point-in-Time Count report.
The Town of Ladysmith is one step closer to beautifying five utility kiosks.
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Thousands are expected to gather Saturday at a comic convention in Nanaimo that’s paying tribute to the man who founded it.
Curious Comicon is on Saturday at Country Club Mall.
It got started in 2016, when the Nanaimo branch of Curious Comics take Free comic book day, an annual, North America wide event, and expand it into a local convention convention.
With guest artists, a cosplay contest, and various activities.
Curious Comicon Founder Mike Drummond died earlier this year. Midcoast Morning spoke with some of the organizers who are keeping the event going in his memory.
As of May 1, in communities with a population over ten thousand, short term rentals will only be allowed in an owner’s principal residence, or in a secondary suite or accessory dwelling on the same property.
A number of less populated communities, including Gabriola Island and Tofino have opted in to the regulations. In those areas the rules will take effect on November first.
According to data obtained from the website Air DNA earlier this week, there are 999 short term rental listings in Nanaimo.
The city requires short term rental operators to have a licence which costs $165 per year.
A March staff report found that there were fewer than 300 licences for short term rentals in the community.
Midcoast Morning explores the impact of the potential impact of the new rules in our area, and speaks with B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon
175 people lost their lives as a result of their jobs last year in B.C.
Flags at government buildings will be at half mast to mark the occasion. Midcoast Morning hears what else will be happening locally to mark the occasion.
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