Nanaimo News

Nanaimo is on a slippery slope when it comes to municipal operational spending, says a representative of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

A sign at the Richmond Road Treatment Centre in Calgary, Alberta. Photograph by: Leah Hennel, Calgary Herald CALGARY a ' In only a few days, Jaclyn Bates went from the picture of health to a medically induced coma after being diagnosed with the H1N1 swine flu.

NAGANO, Japan - Ice dancers Vanessa Crone of Aurora, Ont., and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., sit fourth after Friday's compulsory dance at at the NHK Trophy.

The woman who survived a horrific head-on crash on Nanaimo's Jingle Pot Road five ago years this month -- as police chased a man who had kidnapped his daughter -- now has a civil trial set for next year.

Faced with the loss of hundreds of photos from the last weeks of his wife's life, James Robertson is begging the person who stole his camera to return it.

TransLink operates the Vancouver area's public transit system. The top levels of both BC Ferries and TransLink require a major restructuring to give them more accountability, greater transparency and better oversight, B.C.'s comptroller general says.

Crime Stoppers is raising awareness about crime and ways to prevent it with tips and advice during Crime Prevention Week .

When the stock market started plummeting last fall, Nanaimo investor Sharry Goldston stopped opening her account statements.

This was more like it. No barricades. No fancy video screens. No zombies or booming sound systems.

Ijeffrey hughes had ties to neo-Nazi group, but was also an active volunteer. Two Lower Mainland RCMP officers talk with Dana Wagg on the sidewalk on Selby Street, not far from where Jeffrey Hughes was shot.

Olympic spirit will be high with as many as 10,000 people expected to join in the public celebration when the torch relay winds its way to Nanaimo on Halloween.

The recent departure of Jerry Berry from Nanaimo city hall reminded me of something former labour leader Jack Munro warned after signing the Kelowna Accord following 1983's "solidarity" demonstrations.

Bullet holes in the front of a home across from where a fatal shooting took place Friday are among the few physical traces of the incident.

NANAIMO, B.C. a ' A Victoria lawyer says he has been retained by a party he will not identify to "find out certain things" about the death last week of a 48-year-old Nanaimo man who was shot by police outside his downtown apartment.

Nanaimo city council officially installed Al Kenning as city manager on Monday. Kenning, formerly the deputy city manager, served as acting city manager since council voted 8-1 to dismiss former city manager Jerry Berry last month.

IPROVINCE CUTS support for firefighter instructor course. Nanaimo fire officials are optimistic training options can be found closer to home after the province cut a subsidy that enabled firefighters to get advanced medical training at the Justice Institute of B.C. free of charge.

The shooting death of a Neo-Nazi by Nanaimo RCMP is under investigation while Neo-Nazis mourn online and neighbours remember Jeff Hughes.

An aerial view of downtown Nanaimo and the reported area of the shooting. Photograph by: Google maps, Times Colonist Sgt.

Police answering a noise complaint on Selby Street in Nanaimo ended with a shooting incident which resulted in the death of an unidentified man.

This Sunday at 3 p.m., Alastair Highet of Lantzville, along with local organist Robert Ramsay, will present a program of organ music at Cumberland United Church .