Parksville News

Most Parksville city councillors agree they like the idea of a Canadian Tire in the city but the Big Tent campground site beside the orange bridge is not the right location.

With the donation of a residential lot from the city and $150,000 from an anonymous donor, a Habitat for Humanity project was off to a good start earlier this year in Parksville.

On December 6, 1989, a gunman entered the La Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and shot to death 13 young female engineering students and a school employee.

Police and school officials are warning parents and their children after two incidents of suspected stalking were reported this week.

On a 16-hectare spread near Parksville, about 150 km north of Victoria, Grant and Betty Duckett believe they may have started something that could invigorate small farms on Vancouver Island.

Bert Abbott followed his passion for cooking at 18 when he enrolled in the Culinary Institute of Vancouver Island and then Malaspina University-College. The Powell River native spent 15 years satisfying tastebuds in Parksville and Qualicum Beach before a bad fall left him a paraplegic and changed his life forever.

Here in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, where the median age of residents is 60.9 , you can't stroll the main street without seeing a senior on a mobility scooter zipping into the pharmacy or zooming into a bank.

The fourth annual Parksville Santa Claus Parade and Light-up on Dec. 4 will include all the fun and excitement of previous years, along with two new evening street markets.

A city on the eastern shores of Vancouver Island declared a state of emergency Monday in response to major flooding.

For the last 40 years the Parksville Lions Club has been there for local youth and for seniors.

Organized labour is preparing its battle plan after the B.C. Liberals imposed a legislated settlement on ambulance paramedics.

Many hundreds turned out in the cool but dry weather in Parksville Wednesday morning to remember Canada's veterans.

An agreement signed on Monday with the Chinese city of Shanghai opens up a huge market for British Columbia forest products companies.

"This is potentially the most important public hearing we'll have during the entire three years of this council," mayor Ed Mayne told the media, calling for the entire community to come out and give input at Thursday's transportation open house.

Parksville mayor Ed Mayne stresses that the public should attend Thursday's transportation open house to help shape the future of the city.

Ita s condensed theatre without benefit of fancy staging or props when the One Act Play Festival returns to the Village Theatre for a three day run beginning this Friday.

Gina Jung carries the torch during the Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay in Cowichan Lake , B.C. October 31, 2009.

The only lines bigger than those for H1N1 flu shots, were those at the weekend's Olympic torch relay in Parksville.

Hundreds of Parksville residents lined both sides of the Island Highway on Sunday as Olympic torchbearers ran through this seaside retirement community known for its huge beaches and calm lifestyle.

Teaching people to become better advocates for themselves in the public health-care system is the aim of a one-day conference Nov.