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Comox Valley municipal candidates are gathering tonight with local organizations to discuss social issues.

Candidates in Nanaimo’s municipal election are getting ready to turn their attention to the environment Tuesday night.

Somos Comox Valley hopes to bring Latin communities together through community and cultural evennts.

Wednesday night a Harewood backyard had been brimming with close to 1,000 election signs. Thursday morning, it was up to John Little to get those signs where people could see them. 

The Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and the Nanaimo Golf Club pair up once again on the green with their Golf for Life fundraiser. For 33 years, Golf for Life has brought golfers, community leaders, healthcare supporters and local businesses together for the greater good and some friendly competition at the Nanaimo Golf Club. 

Comox Valley residents gathered to call for fairer federal funding for BC Ferries, as Courtenay–Alberni MP Gord Johns campaigns for increased support for the province’s marine highway.

Shirley Lo only has a faint memory of the fire that destroyed Nanaimo’s final Chinatown.

The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) is working with the City of Nanaimo, and is preparing to kick off work on the Departure Bay Pump Station and Forcemain Expansion Project. The project is scheduled to take around four years to complete and will significantly affect Hammond Bay Rd, seeing the thoroughfare become unidirectional. 

Nanaimo voters now have a clearer picture of who will be on the ballot this fall as the nomination period closes for candidates wanting to run in this year’s municipal election.

A three-year expansion project has brought 44 new licensed childcare spaces to families in Fanny Bay and surrounding communities.

Mansfield Park will be bustling this weekend. The community park is playing host to a county fair, complete with music, magic shows, booths, zucchini races, kids activities and a raffle. The event is completely run by volunteers from the surrounding neighbourhood north of Townsite Rd in Nanaimo.

The Nanaimo Jazz Festival is set to celebrate 10 years with a free concert this weekend, and performer Luke Blu Guthrie said it's a big deal.