A crowd of harm-reduction advocates, people who use drugs, and local politicians gathered in Nanaimo’s Maffeo Sutton Park on Thursday Aug. 31 to mark International Overdose Awareness Day.
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Michael Witcomb, Vancouver Island University’s off-campus housing coordinator, is calling on Nanaimo residents to open up their spare rooms to students this fall.
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A five-hour session of Nanaimo city council that lasted late into Monday night narrowly passed a staff recommendation to move to the top level of the province’s Zero Carbon Step Code by July 2024, six years earlier than the provincial timeline.
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Nanaimo on Monday, shoring up support for incumbent NDP MP Lisa Marie Barron in a riding that was a close race with the Conservative Party of Canada in 2021.
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David Dales, an assistant fire chief in Nanaimo, was recently deployed to protect homes in Kelowna that were threatened by raging wildfires.
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Highway 4 will be closed between 8:30 a.m and 9 p.m. today as rock-scaling work continues to shore up the cliffs at Angel Rock which were destabilized during the Cameron Lake wildfire earlier this summer.
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Evan Lloyd, emergency program manager at the City of Nanaimo, says there are some simple things you can do to be better prepared for an emergency.
The new Hullo fast ferry sailed on its maiden voyage between Nanaimo and Vancouver on Wednesday after two-day delay to the start of the service.
With temperatures hitting 35°C in Nanaimo on Tuesday, Asteras Greek Taverna closed for the day saying they didn’t want to put their kitchen staff at risk.
Chris Aubichon biked over 6,000kms in three months from Moncton, New Brunswick to Nanaimo, B.C. in a personal odyssey for his mental and physical health.
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A heat warning has been issued by Environment Canada for East Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.
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A veteran ER doctor at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is sounding the alarm about a backlog of patients waiting to be admitted to the hospital due to a shortage of hospitalists.
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Doctors at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, the mayor of Nanaimo, the Chief of Snuneymuxw First Nation and other local leaders are calling on the province of British Columbia to build a cardiac catheterization lab for the region's 450,000 residents.
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Dr. Lauren Mayes, a professor of criminology at Vancouver Island University, says that while increases in the crime severity index can be scary the solution is addressing the root causes of crime.
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One woman battling record wildfires in B.C. this summer is Ashley Holyk, a forestry resources technology student at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo.
Vancouver Island University’s board of governors failed to provide proper oversight of the university’s cybersecurity policies according to a new report by B.C’s Auditor General Michael Pickup on Tuesday.
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