Nanaimo City Council voted to amend the service agreement for the Downtown Vandalism Relief Grant program.
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Nanaimo City Council voted on Wednesday to increase the budget for the free shower program at Caledonia Park.
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Transit workers in Comox and Campbell River went on strike Friday morning citing wages as the key reason for the job action.
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A new mural at the Nanaimo Aquatic Center showcases communities coming together and transitioning hate to hope.
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Two new warming centres are scheduled to open in Nanaimo this winter but the president of the Nanaimo Area Public Safety Association says he’s concerned that a second downtown location will attract drug dealers and worsen social disorder in the area.
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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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