Nanaimo, BC
- Site chosen for Nanaimo 'navigation centre' housingwww.nanaimobulletin.com Site chosen for Nanaimo 'navigation centre' housing
60-bed facility for people experiencing homelessness will be built at 1030 Old Victoria Rd.
- Vehicle access changing at Nanaimo's Westwood Lake Parkwww.nanaimobulletin.com Vehicle access changing at Nanaimo's Westwood Lake Park
Vehicle traffic re-routed to prepare for more improvements coming to popular park
- ‘We’re really excited:’ Picnic in the Plaza taking over Diana Krall area in downtown Nanaimo well into the evening hours on Sundaywww.885thebeach.com ‘We’re really excited:’ Picnic in the Plaza taking over Diana Krall area in downtown Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Downtown Nanaimo will be buzzing well into the evening hours on Sunday, as it will be the location for the second edition of Picnic in the P...
- Nanaimo SPCA caging humans during Saturday’s Lock-in for Love eventwww.thelounge999.com Nanaimo SPCA caging humans during Saturday’s Lock-in for Love event
NANAIMO - Rescue animals at SPCA branches across B.C. will be getting some human companionship in their kennels today.The annual Lock-in for Love fund...
- Rezoning approved for proposed townhouse development along Ninth St. in south Nanaimonanaimonewsnow.com Rezoning approved for proposed townhouse development along Ninth St. in south Nanaimo
NANAIMO - South Nanaimo's Harewood neighbourhood could be seeing more housing options available after a pair o...
> The connected lots at 330 and 338 Ninth St. were rezoned from single-dwelling residential (R1) to low-density residential with a site-specific density (R6) during the Monday, June 17 regular council meeting. > > The proposed conceptual plan is for a multi-residential development on the site featuring seven ground-orientated townhouse buildings two to three storeys in height with 34 units in total.
- Heat to blast mid Island not expected to last: Environment Canadananaimonewsnow.com Heat to blast mid Island not expected to last: Environment Canada
NANAIMO - A forecaster isn't anticipating a brief heatwave is a sign we're in for a long, hot summer. Environm...
- Vancouver Island University presents Dr. Bonnie Henry with honorary doctoratewww.nanaimobulletin.com Vancouver Island University presents Dr. Bonnie Henry with honorary doctorate
Convocation ceremonies were held June 12-14 at VIU gym on Nanaimo campus
> The doctor, in her speech at the ceremony, noted that the 2024 graduating class included students who had high school grad festivities cancelled in 2020, and whose "entire university experience was in the shadow of this global pandemic," bringing related challenges and uncertainty. > > "Being here today at this celebration, this transition, shows how you overcame these changes, these hurdles and succeeded despite the challenges," Henry said.
- City of Nanaimo calls on artists to submit designs for street bannerswww.cheknews.ca City of Nanaimo calls on artists to submit designs for street banners
The City of Nanaimo is calling on artists and designers of all skill levels to submit their design proposals for its street banners.
- ‘It became such a lightning rod:’ Nanaimo Council seeking clearer rules around AAP usenanaimonewsnow.com ‘It became such a lightning rod:’ Nanaimo Council seeking clearer rules around AAP use
NANAIMO - Better internal rules around the execution of Alternative Approval Processes (AAP) are hoped to avoi...
> An AAP is effectively the opposite of a referendum, where ballots received are meant to express opposition to a proposal by the City, usually linked to borrowing money. > > Ten per cent of eligible electors, or just under 8,000 people in Nanaimo, are required to submit the relevant forms for the proposal to be stopped.
- Ambassadors saving turtles at Nanaimo's Buttertubs Marshwww.nanaimobulletin.com Ambassadors saving turtles at Nanaimo's Buttertubs Marsh
Nanaimo and Area Land Trust stewards and volunteers on guard during nesting season
> Aside from challenges in nature, there are also problems with people seeing the nesting painted turtles behaving oddly and mistakenly thinking the turtles need help. > > "They pick her up and they put her back in the water," Brooymans explained. "She's trying to nest and she's continuously being picked up and put back in the water because this is a busy trail here."
- $4.8M listing in B.C. includes a house, a ferry and Canada’s only floating pubbc.ctvnews.ca $4.8M listing in B.C. includes a house, a ferry and Canada’s only floating pub
A property on B.C.’s Protection Island has hit the market for $4.8 million – but the asking price includes much more than the four-bedroom, five-bathroom waterfront home.
> A property on B.C.’s Protection Island has hit the market for $4.8 million – but the asking price includes much more than the four-bedroom, five-bathroom waterfront home. > > Billed as a “turnkey package” the new owner would take possession of The Dinghy Dock, Canada’s only floating pub, as well as the ferry that travels to and from the island.
- Interest rate cut hoped to help ‘pent up demand’ for Nanaimo homebuyersnanaimonewsnow.com Interest rate cut hoped to help ‘pent up demand’ for Nanaimo homebuyers
NANAIMO - A long-awaited interest rate movement from the Bank of Canada is eyed as a potential catalyst for a ...
- Officials advise Nanaimo residents to give black bears spacewww.nanaimobulletin.com Officials advise Nanaimo residents to give black bears space
City of Nanaimo advising residents to exercise caution on trails
>A Nanaimo-based seasonal community co-ordinator for WildSafeBC is anticipated to start mid-June, marking the second summer in a row a community co-ordinator will be stationed in the community.
- B.C. violin virtuoso honoured to perform at coronation of King Charles IIIwww.nanaimobulletin.com B.C. violin virtuoso honoured to perform at coronation of King Charles III
Tetsuumi Nagata was one of three violists at Westminster Abbey for last year’s occasion
> Tetsuumi Nagata of Nanaimo was selected to be one of 34 members from leading orchestras in the U.K. and Canada to perform in the Coronation Orchestra for the crowning of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6, 2023, at Westminster Abbey. > > For his part in the coronation, Nagata received a King Charles III Coronation Medal this spring.
- New VIU research centre set up to study trauma and mental health issueswww.nanaimobulletin.com New VIU research centre set up to study trauma and mental health issues
Focus areas will include prevention, detection and treatment
- Four-storey apartment building planned for Nanaimo’s Newcastle areananaimonewsnow.com Four-storey apartment building planned for Nanaimo’s Newcastle area
NANAIMO - More multi-family homes are coming to the Newcastle neighbourhood following the approval of a develo...
- Doctors say patients on the Island dying of preventable heart attack complicationswww.cowichanvalleycitizen.com Doctors say patients on the Island dying of preventable heart attack complications
Fair Care Alliance officially launched to call for improvements at Nanaimo hospital
> “If you’re living in this area, central Island or north Island, the best time to have a heart attack is actually if you’re visiting Victoria,” he warned. “That’s when you get the standard of care, that’s when you’re going to go to the cath lab. Otherwise you’re like everybody else, you’re going to get inferior treatment.”
- ‘An embarrassment:’ two arrested after Nanaimo Council delegation refuses to leavenanaimonewsnow.com ‘An embarrassment:’ two arrested after Nanaimo Council delegation refuses to leave
NANAIMO - A gradually escalating differing of opinion between City Council and a small group of local resident...
- Nanaimo, Qualicum Beach named in building permit processing hub pilot projectwww.885thebeach.com Nanaimo named in building permit processing hub pilot project
NANAIMO - The province has introduced an online hub they say will speed up the permitting process to get homes built faster.Nanaimo was one of the 14 ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22159619
> “This new one-stop shop for local building permits will reduce red tape for homebuilders, local governments and First Nations, and ultimately save money, speed up construction and help people get into homes faster.” > > The hub will include standardized permit submission requirements, ensure the permit complies with the BC Building Code and informs the user when the application process is complete, according to the province.
- Outcry after Vancouver Island University cuts music programs
> University in Nanaimo, B.C., cites low enrolment, financial constraints as reasons for cutting 3 programs
- Mountain snow melting faster than normal with Vancouver Island at lowest levels in B.C.nanaimonewsnow.com Mountain snow melting faster than normal with Vancouver Island at lowest levels in B.C.
NANAIMO - An early May heatwave reduced snowpack levels across the province, especially on Vancouver Island.Th...
- Nanaimo to produce hydrogen fuel as part of provincewide refuelling networkwww.nanaimobulletin.com Nanaimo to produce hydrogen fuel as part of provincewide refuelling network
City one of three in B.C. tabbed as production centres for HTEC’s H2 Gateway project
> In 2021, B.C. became the first province in Canada to create a comprehensive hydrogen strategy. More than 50 per cent of Canada’s hydrogen and fuel-cell companies are in B.C., and the province accounts for approximately 60 per cent of research investment in hydrogen and fuel-cell development, the release noted. There are approximately 50 proposed projects in the hydrogen sector in B.C., ranging range from large-scale production facilities to hydrogen fuelling stations and heavy-duty trucking pilots.
- Retired meteorologist will tell Nanaimo astronomers how to avoid dreaded cloudswww.nanaimobulletin.com Retired meteorologist will tell Nanaimo astronomers how to avoid dreaded clouds
Reg Dunkley is the Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s guest speaker May 23
- Filming to begin on HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ in Nanaimonanaimonewsnow.com Filming to begin on HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Nature has all but reclaimed a key area of the city's downtown. Set dressing crews working on filmin...
- Howard Johnson rezoning still supported amid ‘significant concerns’ from SFNnanaimonewsnow.com Howard Johnson rezoning still supported amid ‘significant concerns’ from SFN
NANAIMO - A proposed development at the gateway of the city's downtown is back to where it was earlier this ye...
- Aerial spray treatments for invasive months coming to Vancouver Islandnanaimonewsnow.com Aerial spray treatments for invasive moths coming to Vancouver Island
NANAIMO - Spray treatments for an invasive moth species will be happening across eastern Vancouver Island this...
- 'I'm so scared, angry': Downtown Nanaimo restaurant considers closing after three break-ins in one monthwww.cheknews.ca 'I'm so scared, angry': Downtown Nanaimo restaurant considers closing after three break-ins in one month
A Nanaimo restaurant owner is reeling after suffering three break-ins in just over a month.
- ‘Keep each other safe:’ 175 tickets issued on Island during extended highway safety campaignnanaimonewsnow.com ‘Keep each other safe:’ 175 tickets issued on Island during extended highway safety campaign
NANAIMO - Despite multiple campaigns over the years, it appears drivers are still not getting the message to "...
- Body found along Nanaimo’s Millstone Riverwww.nanaimobulletin.com Body found along Nanaimo’s Millstone River
Firefighters use rope operation to transport deceased person up embankment
- Hullo increasing frequency of ferry sailings between Nanaimo and Vancouverwww.nanaimobulletin.com Hullo increasing frequency of ferry sailings between Nanaimo and Vancouver
Fast foot-passenger ferry announces spring sailing schedule, allows more luggage
- City sells downtown Nanaimo parking lot in favour of multi-unit rental buildingnanaimonewsnow.com City sells downtown Nanaimo parking lot in favour of multi-unit rental building
NANAIMO - Plans are in the works to turn a downtown City staff parking lot into a residential rental building....
- Forested land south of Nanaimo returned to Snuneymuxw First Nationnanaimonewsnow.com Forested land south of Nanaimo returned to Snuneymuxw First Nation
NANAIMO - A large section of land south of Nanaimo city limits has been returned to Snuneymuxw First Nation (S...
- ‘We’re confident it will come back:’ Air Canada scraps direct flights between Nanaimo and Torontonanaimonewsnow.com ‘We’re confident it will come back:’ Air Canada scraps direct flights between Nanaimo and Toronto
NANAIMO - Non-stop seasonal Air Canada service linking the Harbour City and Toronto won't be taking flight lat...
- New housing under construction for women & children fleeing violence in Nanaimonanaimonewsnow.com New housing under construction for women & children fleeing violence in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Construction has commenced on a new housing block, designed to be a safe haven for women and childre...
- Rock slide closes Hwy. 4 between Oceanside and Port Alberninanaimonewsnow.com Rock slide closes Hwy. 4 between Oceanside and Port Alberni
PARKSVILLE - It's a major hiccup for holiday travelers.A rock slide along Hwy. 4 at Cameron Lake, near the sit...
- Cases of COVID-19 down, flu numbers increasing into holiday seasonnanaimonewsnow.com Cases of COVID-19 down, flu numbers increasing into holiday season
NANAIMO - While cases of COVID-19 have decreased this fall in B.C., cases of influenza continue to grow, with ...
- ‘They cry when they get a key to a new home:’ north Nanaimo affordable housing complex opensnanaimonewsnow.com ‘They cry when they get a key to a new home:’ north Nanaimo affordable housing complex opens
NANAIMO - Lower cost housing options for nearly 90 people in the city's north end are ready to put a small den...
- Atmospheric river storm to bring heavy rain to southern B.C., Environment Canada sayswww.cheknews.ca Atmospheric river storm to bring heavy rain to southern B.C., Environment Canada says
Elevated ocean water levels near Metro Vancouver, the southern Gulf Islands and Saanich Peninsula are expected to create high astronomical tides.
- Nanaimo eyes 6.4% property tax increase as budget discussions beginnanaimonewsnow.com Nanaimo eyes 6.4% property tax increase as budget discussions begin
NANAIMO - Relatively high property taxes are expected for the next two years in the City of Nanaimo, while som...
