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Kip and Karen, spouses and co-owners of Bop City Records in Courtenay, are launching a brand new community music fund to support the local music scene.

It has been a busy week for Beaufort Food Forest after celebrating their first annual Mason Bee Day to then finding out their mason bee cocoons had been stolen.

On March 8th 2025, K’ómoks First Nation voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying both a Constitution and Treaty, achieving a double majority on each vote.

With Spring around the corner, change is in the air and new banners will brighten up the streets of Nanaimo

Following concerns about the lack of funding renewal to the B.C. Fairs, Festivals, and Events Fund, the B.C. government has announced a new event fund that a local Nanaimo arts organization says is not good enough.

As March begins off the coast of Vancouver Island, subtle cues like the changing colour of the ocean, the gathering of seagulls, eagles, sea lions, and orcas, and even the scent on the air, tell us two things. The herring are spawning, and Spring is near.

For 20 years, the Nanaimo Blues Festival has been bringing international and local blues music to Nanaimo’s backyard, but right now, they are wondering why provincial funding has not been renewed for an important fund.

To combat loneliness and isolation among seniors, a new program in Nanaimo will allow doctors to prescribe social connection.

After a three-month-long protest on Vancouver Island University, two student protesters are wondering why they have been suspended from the school.

After concerns that it would have to close 85 per cent of its clinics, Options for Sexual Health will remain open for at least another year.

A report presented to the City of Courtenay indicates air quality has been improving in recent years. 

On Tuesday February 25th residents packed the audience of a Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) board meeting to show their opposition for the recent Unified Alternative Approval Process, or AAP, and the four bylaws it was composed of.