The Town of Ladysmith is one step closer to beautifying five utility kiosks.
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A Comox Valley group is requesting funds from Comox town council to support those facing homelessness in the area.
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The Town of Ladysmith is increasing parking enforcement to the downtown area to deter those who park longer than the set limit.
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Ladysmith council passed a motion at its meeting on Tuesday, April 2 endorsing the updates to the Town of Ladysmith Appropriate Behaviour – Code of Conduct – Recreation Facilities Policy.
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Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada made an appearance in Nanaimo yesterday April 1st.
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Students protested outside the doors of Vancouver Island University’s president's office on Thursday over what they say is an incident of racial profiling.
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Nanaimo city council voted to direct city staff to look at increasing fines for violating the city’s short term rental bylaw from $250 to $500 at its meeting on March 18.
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Parksville city council has approved an advance of levy funding to the Parksville Downtown Business Association.
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Those planning on using trailers or RVs in the Comox Valley might have to replan where they dump their blackwater and greywater this summer.
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A dam safety engineer told Nanaimo city council that there would be serious consequences if dams the city owns and maintains were to fail. Dave Bonin, a senior hydrotechnical engineer with Hatch Ltd. presented at Monday’s governance and priorities committee meeting that he is concerned that at least two of the city’s dams could fail if an earthquake hit.
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At a Regional District of Nanaimo, or RDN, board meeting on Tuesday, March 13, directors voted to defer a motion that would have seen a four per cent increase to curbside collection utility fees.
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Utility boxes around the Ladysmith area are getting a new look.
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A proposal for school children to help clean up an empty lot led to a heated debate at the Lantzville council meeting on Wednesday, March 6. The original motion was for district staff to develop a work plan and agreement with Seaview Elementary School to restore 7101 Stevens Place to a natural park space, have city staff remove all the invasive blackberry bushes, and allocate $2,500 to purchase native plants.
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Leader of the federal NDP, Jagmeet Singh stopped by Nanaimo on Friday, March 8. He and Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP Lisa Marie Barron spent some time volunteering at Loaves’ & Fishes free food market.
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Another local environmental group has spoken to their town council about the potential impacts of recent changes to B.C.’s Local Government Act could have on urban forests in the community.
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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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