Local News Updates
Regular updates on what’s happening in Nanaimo and on the Salish Sea.
Test alerts were heard all across British Columbia yesterday morning over radios, televisions and compatible phones.
May is Invasive Species Month in British Columbia and the City of Nanaimo is working to remove invasive plants that have taken over.
B.C.’s new short-term rental law has come into effect
Students from Vancouver Island University have set up a pro-Palestine camp at VIU’s Nanaimo campus.
People are getting ready to move into a new supportive housing building in Nanaimo.
An anti-old-growth logging protestor and activist has been sentenced on Wednesday, April 24 for her role in blockades at Fairy Creek.
Housing projects continue to be at the forefront of development approvals and are still happening around Nanaimo, said the manager of current planning for the City of Nanaimo.
Nanaimo RCMP has tracked down a stash of bicycles they believed to have been stolen.
The City of Nanaimo through poetry is adding art to the natural landscape of Bowen Park.
A local Parksville brewery is looking for support from the City of Parksville for their application to the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch to change their hours of liquor services.
Patients in Nanaimo with heart disease cannot get access to the care they need and it can lead to suffering poor or sometimes fatal outcomes said a healthcare advocate group.
A local Nanaimo organization that engages vulnerable youth with full-time mental health and well-being programs is looking for funding through the Regional District of Nanaimo to support its program.
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Vancouver Island University’s response to a Palestine solidarity encampment on its grounds has drawn criticism from the B.C. Federation of Students, The Vancouver Island University Students Union, and more than a hundred of the school’s faculty and staff.
Thousands are expected to gather Saturday at a comic convention in Nanaimo that’s paying tribute to the man who founded it.
Curious Comicon is on Saturday at Country Club Mall.
It got started in 2016, when the Nanaimo branch of Curious Comics take Free comic book day, an annual, North America wide event, and expand it into a local convention convention.
With guest artists, a cosplay contest, and various activities.
Curious Comicon Founder Mike Drummond died earlier this year. Midcoast Morning spoke with some of the organizers who are keeping the event going in his memory.
As of May 1, in communities with a population over ten thousand, short term rentals will only be allowed in an owner’s principal residence, or in a secondary suite or accessory dwelling on the same property.
A number of less populated communities, including Gabriola Island and Tofino have opted in to the regulations. In those areas the rules will take effect on November first.
According to data obtained from the website Air DNA earlier this week, there are 999 short term rental listings in Nanaimo.
The city requires short term rental operators to have a licence which costs $165 per year.
A March staff report found that there were fewer than 300 licences for short term rentals in the community.
Midcoast Morning explores the impact of the potential impact of the new rules in our area, and speaks with B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon
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