While the temperature drops and the sun sets earlier in the day, no matter the weather, Oceanside birder Bonnie Mullin is encouraging people to keep an eye out for wintering birds as the BC Bird Trail celebrates its 5th anniversary.
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After breaking a world record at the Paralympic Games trials in Para swimming, Parksville’s Nicholas Bennett has finished his second Paralympics with two golds and one silver.
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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.
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Parksville city council has approved an advance of levy funding to the Parksville Downtown Business Association.
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Parksville city council voted to defer a motion that could have seen an Official Community Plan, (OCP) bylaw amendment to limit multi-unit developments along the Englishman River. At the council meeting on Monday, March 4, council heard a presentation from Mid Island Habitat Enhancement Society president, Barb Riordan, about how changes to the Local Government Act, may impact environmentally sensitive areas along the Englishman River.
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On February 21, Parksville city council voted to move ahead with an application to allow the development of a non-market rental building at 1225 Franklin Gulls Road by the Parksville Lions Society.
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After his first full year as mayor of Parksville, Mayor Doug O’Brien said he has seen a lot of growth in the city.
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The coastline is going to get a whole lot cleaner with the province announcing a new round of funding for coastal clean-up projects. Through the Clean Coast, Clean Waters initiative, eight projects were selected this year and are expected to clean more than 1,400 kilometres of shoreline and remove at least 70 derelict vessels. This funding is expected to create 630 new jobs in the process.
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Nanaimo residents could see a possible 6.4 per cent increase in property tax next year. Last Wednesday, November 22nd, Nanaimo city council discussed a draft of the 2024-2028 financial plan.
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Parksville city council heard from residents at a packed public hearing about the proposed location of a new mental health and/or addictions treatment facility at 188 McCarter Street on Wednesday.
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The City of Parksville is seeking an exemption to the province’s new law on short-term rentals for tourist accommodation areas in the city, but the minister of housing says the city needs to increase the vacancy rates for long-term rentals first.
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Adam Walker says he will clear his name and ‘all options are on the table’ including joining another party after getting booted from the BC NDP Caucus.
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The Oceanside Task Force on Homelessness is looking for land to create a village of tiny homes for people who are experiencing homelessness in the area.
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