Nanaimo News

Two teens accused in a spree of vandalism and theft involving at least 30 cars Wednesday are in custody.

A Nanaimo man associated with the Globe Hotel will have a trial next year on charges brought by the Canada Revenue Agency.

It took two spike belts and 15 kilometres to take the steam out of a truck thiefa s flight from police through Nanaimo late Tuesday.

A new express transit bus that will carry riders from Parksville-Qualicum to the Departure Bay ferry terminal in a little more than an hour is one of a number of improvements to the mid-Island bus service that was announced Tuesday by B.C. Transit.

Help from the public, even from some in the criminal realm, led police to track down a mother wanted for the death of her own child.

Allan Snowie, who was once an airline pilot for Air Canada, commemorates the 100th anniversary of Canadian flight by flying across the country in a 1914 Newport 11 fighter plane.

Somewhere smack in the middle of Nanaimo is an invisible line that divides the political left and right.

Forestry service fire crews battled another suspicious blaze off Nanaimo Lakes Road Wednesday evening, bringing the total number of human-caused fires in the area to 15 this year.

The Ministry of Forests and Range issued a plea on Thursday to help catch a suspected arsonist in Nanaimo.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority today confirmed its first case of a hospital admission related to a case of H1N1 Human Swine Flu.

QUALICUM BEACH, B.C. a ' RCMP have several suspects in custody following what they say was a targeted, drug-related shooting early Saturday.

Three men charged in the so-called Surrey Six murders will now face their murder charges in B.C. Supreme Court.

Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 05:23AM EDT A Vancouver Island hospital is struggling to contain a deadly bug whose spread is tied to poor hygiene, months after health authorities were warned to improve infection controls.

Britney Frey, 16, says the coroner's office told her it would 'put my mother's remains in the mail' if Robert Pickton's six murder convictions are upheld.

Heavy rain on Wednesday at least temporarily reduced the fire risk in Nanaimo forests but investigators are increasingly worried about the number of suspicious fires cropping up south of the city.

A search that spanned close to half the globe looking for the family of a First World War veteran has ended with the location of a niece in B.C. "Out of the blue I got a phone call asking about Charles Jeffs," said Rae Falkenberg from her home yesterday in Nanaimo, B.C. "It's incredible." Falkenberg appears to be the closest living relative to ...

Police are this week reporting success in their investigations into a spate of robberies in Parksville and Qualicum Beach following one man's guilty plea and the laying of additional charges against a man accused of three break and enters.

An Alberta woman facing charges in the death of her toddler after the child apparently drank methadone by accident is now in custody in British Columbia.

The British Columbia Boys Choir will expand its singing program to include four Greater Vancouver communities in addition to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island next season.

Departure Bay ferry terminal at Nanaimo. Ridership is down for B.C. Ferries, prompting efforts to cut expenses, including the cancellation of some winter weekday runs from Departure Bay.