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City of Nanaimo hears broad support for potential Harbourfront Walkway extension

A rendering of how a Harbourfront Walkway extension in the Departure Bay area might look. (City of Nanaimo image)

80 per cent of survey respondents support multimillion-dollar project under consideration

by Nanaimo News Staff
6h ago

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Nanaimo RCMP at Westwood Lake Park on Sunday, July 25, after a paddler reported seeing a body floating in the lake. Nothing has been found, say police. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

UPDATE: Paddler reports body in Nanaimo’s Westwood Lake, but nothing found
800 Christmas trees burn in fire at Nanaimo tree farm
- updated 8h ago
District of Lantzville removes mayor from RDN board
- updated 13h ago
City of Nanaimo announces it has purchased Jean Burns property
Hot summer days in the forecast this week on Vancouver Island
- updated 15h ago

Voting is open in the News Bulletin’s annual Best of the City survey. (News Bulletin image)

B.C.’s COVID-19 daily cases jump to 150 Tuesday, mostly in Interior

by Tom Fletcher

updated 7h ago

Staff Sgt. Janelle Shoihet, spokesperson for the B.C. RCMP, speaks to Emergency Management B.C. briefing, July 27, 2021. (B.C. government video)

Follow local evacuation orders, B.C. Wildfire Service urges

by Tom Fletcher

updated 7h ago

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Stay for the day, or stay a little longer: Nanaimo’s Island paradise is at your doorstep

Hanan and Shelagh Merrill, co-owners of Nanaimo Hearing Clinic at 501-800 Turner Rd. in Cactus Club Plaza.

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Lend me your ear! CROS hearing tech sends sound to ‘your good side’

Four taken to hospital after crash on Nanaimo’s Terminal Avenue

Mary Simon speaks during an announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, has been named as Canada's next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

VIDEO: Mary Simon becomes Canada’s 1st Indigenous governor general

Bill Merilees, a retired B.C. Parks regional information officer, collected mollusk shells from B.C. and Washington state coastlines for 50 years and has donated his 140,000-specimen collection to University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

Nanaimo man donates 140,000 mollusk specimens to biodiversity museum

Helicopters fly past the Tremont Creek wildfire as it burns on the mountains above Ashcroft, B.C., on Friday, July 16, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. says expanding emergency alert for wildfires is a priority, but no timeline set

Only 0.5 per cent of COVID-19 cases in fully vaccinated Canadians: Trudeau

Prime minister urges those who have yet to get their vaccinations to get them now

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

Minister of Seniors Deb Schulte speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Thursday, June 4, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

One-time payments to seniors over 75 likely to also go to the dead

Government wouldn’t seek to recoup the deposits made to the deceased, documents say

by The Canadian Press

updated 8h ago

Boxing club trying to raise money so Indigenous youths can go more rounds

Online fundraiser set up after Team 700 has its funding cut

by Karl Yu

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Nanaimo Track and Field Club athlete Sonya Urbanowicz with her record-setting pole vault, and afterward with coach Sven Donaldson. (Photos courtesy Wanda Urbanowicz)

Nanaimo’s track and field athletes highly ranked

Numerous Nanaimo Track and Field Club members set personal bests in return to competition

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