A pond near Qualicum Beach Elementary is getting a new name after a local teacher wrote to the town council informing them that the students voted to name it Salamander Pond.
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Santa Claus was spotted flying over Nanaimo early Tuesday morning, but left his sleigh at home instead opting for a flight in an air ambulance helicopter that landed at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
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Recent figures show illicit drug poisonings attended by the BC Emergency Health Services in Nanaimo are more than double the per capita rate when compared to other communities within Island Health
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The Nanaimo Art Gallery is currently looking for a new place to call home
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Nanaimo’s Jewish community marked the first night of Chanukah with the lighting of a giant Menorah at Maffeo Sutton Park.
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Island Health is ramping up its Covid and Influenza vaccine campaign with free walk-in clinics for children between six months and 11 years of age.
Vancouver Island Univerisity gathered to remember the worst act of violent misogyny in Canadian history, at École Polytechnique Montreal that took the lives of 14 women on December 6th 1989.
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Over the last week, Nanaimo city council has had the chance to discuss next year’s financial plan and on Monday, Dec. 4, residents finally had their chance to speak.
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Nanaimo city council voted 7-2 to redo an Alternative Approval Process to take out a $48.5 million loan for a new public works yard in Nanaimo after the previous one run in November was found to have been done without giving proper notice.
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The City of Nanaimo is looking at increasing property taxes by eight per cent in 2024 as of Friday’s finance and audit committee meeting.
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Exciting news has come out of the Qualicum First Nations as the once-considered ‘sleeping language’ has successfully been labelled as an awakening language. The pentl’ach language has officially become the 35th First Nations language recognized in British Columbia.
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A controversial Alternative Approval Process (AAP) to take out a $48.5 million loan for the first phase of a new public works yard was conducted improperly and needs to be run again.
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Nanaimo city council is looking at restricting a property tax exemption designed to encourage new multi-unit residential buildings in the downtown.
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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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