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NANAIMO - An ATV accident has killed a local man south of Nanaimo.Emergency crews were called to a gravel road off Nanaimo River Rd., near Gogo's Christmas Tree farm on South Forks Rd. in the morning ...

NANAIMO - Crews are concluding $660,000 worth of upgrades to the City's downtown Service and Resource Centre, home to roughly 200 civil servants. The City's director of finance Laura Mercer said it be...

KAMLOOPS - On Wednesday (June 30), Interior Health declared a COVID-19 outbreak was taking place at Royal Inland Hospital. The outbreak was reported in the surgical unit on Six South.Six South remains...

NANAIMO - Summer events season in Nanaimo received a significant jolt with the return of the Vancouver Island Exhibition at the Beban Park Fairgrounds.One of the oldest agricultural fairs in western C...

PARKSVILLE - Perimeter fencing has been removed and visitors are allowed back to a premium Vancouver Island tourism draw.A ministry of environment statement confirmed Macmillan Provincial Park re-open...

KAMLOOPS - Local Fire Rescue crews had a busy night battling a large fire, which appeared to ignite from an evening lightning stormThe fire started in a wooded area east of the city. At one point RCMP...

NANAIMO - Though Canada Day 2021 arrives at a time of continuing discussions and calls for celebrations to be cancelled, many events are running throughout the mid-island area.Nanaimo:Canada Day event...

KAMLOOPS - Shortly after 4:00 pm, Kamloops Fire Rescue was called to a structure fire in the 200-block of Tranquille Road.The fire was first reported around 4:10 pm by a caller from a nearby building,...

KAMLOOPS - Last month, 160 people in British Columbia died as a result of a toxic supply of illicit drugs. That brought the total number of deaths due to illicit drug overdose in B.C. to 851 for the y...

NANAIMO - The trend of fatal overdoses in Nanaimo and central Vancouver Island dipped slightly in May. Data from the BC Coroners Service published on Tuesday, June 29 showed four people lost their liv...