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Nanaimo city council established the 2011 tax rate increase for property owners Monday night, voting for an overall 2.5-per cent rate increase, while residential property tax owners will see a 3.6-per cent tax rate increase.

Businesses across the Island are being warned to be wary of a telemarketing company soliciting donations for a children’s activity book that is neither approved nor endorsed by the Vancouver Island Health Authority nor its local hospitals.

VIA Rail will officially relocate the Dayliner passenger train to Nanaimo from Victoria today (May 10), leaving many people to wonder if it will be the last time the train runs the tracks or if it will be the beginning of a new era in Vancouver Island railway history.

Five Nanaimo school district students took home gold medals at the B.C. Skills Canada competition.

Nanaimo RMCP hope the public can help find a missing teen.

Employees of the Cash Store in Terminal Park Plaza had to step gingerly when they walked in the office Monday morning because what used to be the front of their place of work was lying in shattered pieces on the sidewalk.

For more than 100 years, volunteers from the Nanaimo Auxiliary to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have dedicated countless hours in the pursuit of patient care.

The mystery behind a mystery woman's identity was solved, but due to privacy issues, Mounties cannot tell anyone who she is, where she is from or where she is now living.

The first cruise ship passengers to set foot in the new $24-million cruise terminal streamed off the Norwegian Pearl Saturday, and they liked what they saw.

Nanaimo Mounties arrested a man for indecent exposure Thursday.