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‘It’s out of control’: More than 20 fires set in downtown Nanaimo in past three months

A still image from security camera video recorded June 8 shows an individual lighting trash on fire in the doorway of 19+ Cannabis Store on Victoria Crescent. RCMP and Nanaimo Fire Rescue are investigating numerous fires set in downtown Nanaimo in the past three months. (Photo submitted)

Authorities asking business owners to keep dumpsters locked

by Chris Bush
updated 10h ago

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Susan Cairns (left) and Cecelia Reekie with the 215 crosses bedecked with children’s clothes placed in memory of the Kamloops residential school victims at the Derek Doubleday Arboretum at 21559 Fraser Hwy. Langley on Tuesday, June 15. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: 215 crosses go up in B.C. community to remember Kamloops residential school children

by Dan Ferguson

updated 8h ago

Dirty money: Canadian currency the most germ-filled in the world, survey suggests

by Katya Slepian

11h ago

Parents will need to fight ‘COVID learning slump’ over summer: B.C. literacy experts

by Sarah Grochowski

updated 10h ago

The border crossing on Highway 11 in Abbotsford heading south (file)

Western premiers call for clarity, timelines on international travel, reopening rules

by The Canadian Press

11h ago

The B.C. government’s vaccine booking website is busy processing second-dose appointments, with more than 76 per cent of adults having received a first dose. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

B.C.’s COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations stable for Tuesday

by Tom Fletcher

updated 11h ago

Crash blocks Cranberry intersection in Nanaimo, no one injured

Nanaimo Fire Rescue firefighters at the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Tenth Street near Southside Drive on Sunday, June 13. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

Driver OK after crashing vehicle off the side of Nanaimo’s Tenth Street

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a plenary session at the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay, England on Friday June 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada donating 13M surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses to poor countries

At an outdoor drive-in convocation ceremony, Mount Royal University bestows an honorary Doctor of Laws on Blackfoot Elder and residential school survivor Clarence Wolfleg in Calgary on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

‘You didn’t get the best of me’: Residential school survivor gets honorary doctorate

Liberal government moves to define ‘elder abuse’ to better target ways to stop it

Increasing cases of abuse, neglect, financial abuse or abuse of power-of-attorney being flagged

by The Canadian Press

11h ago

Cowichan Tribes man Adrian Sylvester is worried that he was targetted by a trailer hitch thrown from a vehicle. (Facebook photo)

Cowichan Tribes man worried he was target of trailer hitch

Adrian Sylvester says no one has reported a missing hitch after one nearly hit him

by Kevin Rothbauer

updated 10h ago

Task force shares ideas to help Canadian sports associations be more LGBTQ-inclusive

Canada’s Sport Inclusion Task Force launches website during Pride Month

by Nanaimo News Staff

Owen Harbo and Adin Brenner both medalled at Trampoline Gymnastics B.C. Championships earlier this spring. (Photo submitted)

Trampoline athletes land on podium at virtual provincials

Adin Brenner of Gabriola Island and Owen Harbo of Nanaimo both qualify for nationals

by Nanaimo News Staff

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