A Vancouver Island doctor involved in setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites has resigned from her positions with ...
The B.C. Coroners Service reported 446 deaths from unregulated drugs in 2024 across the region, after 487 in 2023. Provincially, it dropped from 2,568 in 2023 to 2,253 in 2024. The last time Island ...
Fatal overdoses from unregulated drugs experienced a decline in Nanaimo, Island Health, and across the province in 2024. The ...
Community activist Peter Rusland began a petition in the summer of 2023, which has garnered almost 5,000 signatures so far, ...
The first snow storm of the winter left upwards of 30 centimetres in parts of Nanaimo as Vancouver Islander's spent Tuesday digging out.
Nanaimo is still digging out from combination of snow and frigid temperatures that created treacherous roads for drivers and ...
Snow plows in the city and on the Island highway continued to clear snow from main routes, with bus routes and roads to ...
The lion has been awakened through traditional eye-dotting ceremony at Nanaimo's Lunar New Year Gala, ringing in the Year of the Snake. "Painting the lion's eyes is what you do to wake the lion up," ...
Snowfall warnings were in place for much of the Island on Monday, with snowsqualls expected to bring up to 20 centimetres of ...
Winter has finally arrived on Vancouver Island. As Claire Palmer reports, Nanaimo saw upwards of 15 centimetres of snow on ...
A round of heavy snow has left some Nanaimo roads treacherous, with multiple accidents and vehicles in ditches, RCMP said ...
Both Nanaimo ridings are currently held by the B.C. NDP. In the recent provincial election, Sheila Malcolmson won Nanaimo-Gabriola with 52.8 per cent of the votes, and George Anderson won ...