Nanaimo singer Lauren Spencer-Smith performs at Juno awards

Lauren Spencer-Smith performs Fingers Crossed on Toronto’s Budweiser Stage during the Junos Awards broadcast May 15. (iPhoto/CARAS photo)
Platinum single Fingers Crossed featured as part of Canada’s biggest night of music

Two teenage girls are safe after being rescued by Arrowsmith Search and Rescue on a trail near Bowser on May 11, 2022. (ASAR/Facebook photo)

2 young hikers found safe by SAR crews after getting lost on Vancouver Island trail
Schooner Cover Yacht Club hauled in garbage from nine neighbouring islands nearby during a cleanup May 10. (Submitted photo)

Nanoose Bay cleanup crews haul in garbage from 9 islands
Police: Cartels in Oregon are morphing their pot-growing ops

Police: Cartels in Oregon are morphing their pot-growing ops
World invited back to Parksville beach as sandcastles poised to make a return

World invited back to Parksville beach as sandcastles poised to make a return

Kevin Lindo will coach Vancouver Island University’s men’s soccer team after coaching the women’s team since 2017. (Photo submitted)

VIU soccer coach moves from women’s team to men’s team
An artist’s rendering of a planned renovation to the Sealand Market site at Stewart Avenue and Zorkin Road. (DHK Architects image)

Nanaimo’s Sealand Market in line for significant renovation
Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, right, celebrates his goal with teammates during second period NHL playoff hockey action against the Dallas Stars in Calgary, Alta., Sunday, May 15, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Flames eliminate Stars in 7 games to set up NHL’s Battle of Alberta
A firetruck is seen outside the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2022 after a fatal shooting. (Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP)

California churchgoers detained gunman in attack that left 1 dead
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Pharis and Jason Romero filmed their latest video with Rick Magnell in the historic 153 Mile Store. (Rick Magnell video capture)

VIDEO: Juno-award winning folk duo showcase B.C. history in new song

BellaBot joined the Smitty’s in Kelowna May 2022 to help staff in seating patrons and shuttling plates (Brittany Webster/Capital News)

VIDEO: The future is now: B.C. restaurant employs robot server to boost business

Exercise Cougar Gauntlet was a joint operation that included army and navy reserve members. Photo by Mike Chouinard

Army, navy storm Island beach in joint training operation

The premier dropped the F-bomb during debate in the legislature. That doesn’t leave much for special occasions. Can’t imagine what he would say if he hit his thumb with a hammer.

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How can you resist this face? Hamsters are one of the small animals available through the BC SPCA’s ‘Little Creatures, Big Hearts’ pay-as-you-can promotion through May 31. (Photo credit: BC SPCA)

BC SPCA holding special adoption event for some unusual potential pets

‘Little Creatures, Big Hearts’ promotion highlights small animals, birds, and reptiles

A worker organizes chairs and tables on the patio of a restaurant on College St., Toronto, Thursday, October 28, 2021. Restaurants across Canada are cutting back hours and tightening up menus as persistent labour shortages and spiking costs threaten to derail the industry’s comeback from crushing pandemic restrictions.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima

‘We just don’t have enough workers:’ Restaurants rocked by labour shortage, inflation

Workers pushing back against long hours, unstable schedules and low pay

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A pickleball tournament organized by the Nanaimo Pickleball Club will raise money for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. (News Bulletin file photo)

Nanaimo pickleball club organizes tourney to try to help Ukraine

UkraineAid open mixed doubles tournament to be hosted in Nanoose Bay

Nanaimo Clippers players celebrate a goal in a playoff game earlier this spring at Frank Crane Arena. (Black Press Media file photo)

‘A rivalry renewed’: Coaches from Penticton Vees, Nanaimo Clippers preview BCHL Finals

The battle for the Fred Page Cup begins on Friday night, May 13, in Penticton

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Actor Denise Crosby is headlining a slate of celebrity guests at this year’s Capital City Comic Con in September. (Capital City Comic Con/Instagram)

Victoria’s Capital City Comic Con announces celebrity guests

Actor Denise Crosby will headline at the September event in Victoria

Frontman of the Tragically Hip, Gord Downie, leads the band through a concert in Vancouver, on July 24, 2016. The band’s May 3, 1991 live performance at Hollywood’s storied Roxy Theatre will be released as a stand-alone album on June 24, after being remastered for the Hip’s 30th anniversary “Road Apples” box set last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Tragically Hip releases stand-alone live album from Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre

‘It’s very much us, I think, at one of our primes’

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The Nanaimo Disability Resource Centre issued its 100,000th disability parking permit last month. (News Bulletin file photo)

Nanaimo Disability Resource Centre issues 100,000th accessible parking permit

Non-profit presents basket of prizes to client to recognize milestone

The Nanaimo Rhododendron Society is holding a plant sale and truss show April 30. (News Bulletin file photo)

Rhododendrons will be shown and sold in Nanaimo

Nanaimo Rhododendron Society holding event Saturday, April 30, at Beban Park

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Matt MacLeod

May 13th, 2022

Sara Andre

May 12th, 2022

Morna MacDonald (nee Hay)

May 9th, 2022

John James ‘Jack’ Baker

May 8th, 2022

Dustin Tuankiet Cao

May 7th, 2022

Maureen Peterson

May 5th, 2022

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Autumn Shannon feeds a young calf at Shannon Farms. (ELENA RARDON / ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS)

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Parksville’s Tagen Marshall with his new van, ‘Vinnie’, picked up last week after a successful fundraising campaign. (Submitted photo)

New $90K van ‘opens doors’ for ambitious Vancouver Island University student

WOLF: Parksville’s Tagen Marshall continues to inspire

A health care worker is seen outside the Emergency dept. of the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver on March 30, 2020. he B.C. government says temporary pandemic pay that was promised to essential workers in mid-May should be coming in October. The stipend was promised to hundreds of thousands of essential workers for work done between March and July and some workers say they’re frustrated it still hasn’t arrived. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

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