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📷 A Harbour Air Seaplane lands in the Nanaimo Harbour in front of Protection Island. Photo by Jesse Woodward.

CHLY produces local civic and community news from our broadcast community and beyond. We serve Nanaimo and the Salish Sea region, reporting on the news in Nanaimo, Lantzville, Ladysmith, Gabriola Island, Denman Island, Hornby Island, the Oceanside region, and the Comox Valley. We can also be heard in Sechelt and the Southern Sunshine Coast.

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Vanier Secondary garage sale funding the future of Explore Program
Vanier Secondary garage sale funding the future of Explore Program

Local high school G.P. Vanier’s Explore Program is hosting their famed fundraiser, gearing up for Spring trips into the great outdoors.

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Heather WatsonMay 2, 2025Comox Valley, G.P. Vanier, Vanier, high school, fundraiser, outdoor education, education, outdoor ed, Explore Program, School District 71, SD71, hiking, backpacking
Skin safe and sun smart: Skin Cancer Awareness Month reaches Courtenay
Skin safe and sun smart: Skin Cancer Awareness Month reaches Courtenay

The City of Courtenay is joining other municipalities across B.C. and Canada in naming May 2025 as Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month.

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Heather WatsonMay 1, 2025Comox Valley, sun safety, skin cancer, health, awareness, melanoma, City of Courtenay, Doug Hillian, Save Your Skin Foundation
“These people became my family.” Risebridge shelter faces possible closure as shelter funding expires
“These people became my family.” Risebridge shelter faces possible closure as shelter funding expires

Today, 24 people are facing the possibility of being on the street after BC Housing funding for a temporary shelter ends.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 30, 2025Nanaimo, Risebridge, housing, winter shelter
Success: “Infusion” sees hundreds of Americans gather in Nanaimo
Success: “Infusion” sees hundreds of Americans gather in Nanaimo

After one man’s idea to have Americans come and visit Nanaimo, hundreds of them came this weekend.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 28, 2025Nanaimo, Tod Maffin, Infusion, USA, United States of America, Americans
Second urgent and primary care centre to open in Nanaimo
Second urgent and primary care centre to open in Nanaimo

Residents in Nanaimo will have more access to primary care as a second urgent and primary care centre is set to open in the community.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 25, 2025Nanaimo, Healthcare, UPCC
Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidates speak to voters days before the election
Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidates speak to voters days before the election

With less than a week until election day, Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidates took to the stage to answer questions from engaged voters.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 24, 2025Nanaimo, Election
Comox Valley Regional District seeks input on new nature park
Comox Valley Regional District seeks input on new nature park

Three plots of land have been donated to the community through the Canadian Ecological Gifts Program, and the CVRD is turning to the public for feedback on how to manage it.

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Heather WatsonApril 24, 2025Comox Valley, community, Comox Valley Regional District, nature, parks, public engagement, public opinion, Recreation, Electoral Area C, Maris Nature Park
Community members rally at Loudon Park, hoping to save the trees
Community members rally at Loudon Park, hoping to save the trees

Following a City of Nanaimo council vote to spend over $10.8 million to redevelop Loudon Park, community members gathered at the park hoping the City would stop the project.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 23, 2025Loudon Park, City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, Trees, environment
Exploring the pros and cons of strategic voting
Exploring the pros and cons of strategic voting

The election is in its final stretch on Vancouver Island, and with the right side of the Canadian political spectrum mostly consolidated within one party, many progressive voters are calling for strategic voting.

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Heather WatsonApril 22, 2025Comox Valley, election, election 2025, North Island--Powell River, strategic voting, Arzeena Hamir, politics, political science, Stewart Prest, Aaron Gunn
Queer Potluck creates space for chosen family this Easter
Queer Potluck creates space for chosen family this Easter

This Easter Sunday, Queer Centre Comox Valley is inviting people of all ages to gather with chosen family for a Queer Potluck at The Foundry in Courtenay. 

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Heather WatsonApril 17, 2025Comox Valley, community, Courtenay, queer, LGBTQ, 2SLQBTQIA+, Easter, chosen family, Queer Centre, Foundry, queer community
Spending time with the volunteers who flock to count brant geese
Spending time with the volunteers who flock to count brant geese

On the shoreline of Vancouver Island, there are things you are certain to hear: crashing waves, birds chirping, and running water from nearby streams. But every week on Monday mornings, there is one sound in particular that a group of volunteers would be looking for.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 16, 2025Brant, brant geese, geese, goose
Counting geese: Oceanside’s favourite feathered visitors
Counting geese: Oceanside’s favourite feathered visitors

Every spring, the Oceanside area gets visited by travelling birds stopping off on the coast of Vancouver Island to rest their wings. 

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 16, 2025Brant, brant geese, geese, goose
Nanaimo–Ladysmith candidates officially declared in the riding
Nanaimo–Ladysmith candidates officially declared in the riding

The deadline for candidates to apply for the riding has officially passed, and Elections Canada has put out the official list of who voters in the Nanaimo–Ladysmith riding will see on their ballot.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 11, 2025Election, Elections Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, NDP, Green Party of Canada
Two upcoming candidate forums for voters in Nanaimo–Ladysmith
Two upcoming candidate forums for voters in Nanaimo–Ladysmith

Candidates in Nanaimo–Ladysmith will have opportunities to speak with voters at upcoming candidate meetings in the riding.

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Lauryn MackenzieApril 11, 2025VIU, Canadate, Election, Liberal, NDP, Conservative, Green Party of Canada
Award winning Poetry Walk returns to Courtenay with a new interactive twist
Award winning Poetry Walk returns to Courtenay with a new interactive twist

National poetry month has sprung to a start in the Comox Valley, with the Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association and Artful : The Poets joining together once again. 

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Heather WatsonApril 11, 2025Comox Valley, community, Downtown Courtenay, Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association, Artful : The Poets, Artful : The Gallery, Diana Kolpak, Poetry Walk, poetry, Arts and Culture
Winners of inaugural Bop City Records Community Music Fund are ready to rock
Winners of inaugural Bop City Records Community Music Fund are ready to rock

The 2025 Bop City Records Community Music Fund has been granted to two winners, local punk rock band Mean Bikini and local musician and guitar teacher Sebastian Robles.

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Heather WatsonApril 9, 2025Comox Valley, music, community, grant, fund, local music, community music fund, punk, punk rock, guitarist, new music, Mean Bikini, Outhouse Records, Sebastian Robles
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City of Nanaimo showcases climate change adaptation projects amidst visit from Philippines delegates
June 17, 2026
City of Nanaimo showcases climate change adaptation projects amidst visit from Philippines delegates
June 17, 2026
June 17, 2026
“You can't move forward unless people are moving forward together.” Nanaimo celebrates tenth annual Pride Parade
June 16, 2026
“You can't move forward unless people are moving forward together.” Nanaimo celebrates tenth annual Pride Parade
June 16, 2026
June 16, 2026
Youth Climate Corps bring emergency preparedness initiatives for second year in Courtenay
June 15, 2026
Youth Climate Corps bring emergency preparedness initiatives for second year in Courtenay
June 15, 2026
June 15, 2026
Flag raising marks 30 years of Pride in Nanaimo
June 12, 2026
Flag raising marks 30 years of Pride in Nanaimo
June 12, 2026
June 12, 2026
“People need to have options.” Community voices call for more sober housing in Nanaimo
June 11, 2026
“People need to have options.” Community voices call for more sober housing in Nanaimo
June 11, 2026
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