Dense fog blankets B.C.’s south coast Sunday, leading to poor visibility: Environment Canada

Environment Canada has issued a fog advisory for a large portion of the B.C. south coast Sunday. (Pixabay photo)
Drivers, pedestrians urged to be cautions

Gibbles, a four-year old goat rescued from a meat farm, is back to his playful self now that he has a wheelchair to get around the Happy Herd animal sanctuary in Aldergrove. (Shauna Gail/Special to Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: Gibbles the 3-legged B.C. goat gets a wheelchair
Image of the 2003 Mazda Protégé after its engine blew following the police stop. Image courtesy of Abbotsford Police.

20-year old N driver goes 200 km/h on B.C. highway, blows engine, gets mom’s car impounded
University of Toronto researcher looks at cannabinoids to treat obesity

University of Toronto researcher looks at cannabinoids to treat obesity
Airlines, airport ask Canada to drop arrivals testing requirement

Airlines, airport ask Canada to drop arrivals testing requirement

Truckers and supporters raise their fists and hold a banner before a cross-country convoy destined for Ottawa to protest a federal vaccine mandate for truckers departed in Delta, B.C. on Sunday, January 23, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canadian Trucking Alliance condemns protests by unvaccinated truckers
Several hundred demonstrators lined Hwy. 1 and the 264th St. overpass in Aldergrove Sunday morning, Jan, 23, to show support for a convoy of truckers protesting a vaccine mandate. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: Crowd of supporters greets anti-vaccine-mandate truck convoy as it leaves Vancouver for Ottawa
FILE Students walk through a corridor at the relocated New Westminster Secondary School, in New Westminster, B.C., on Thursday, October 14, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Staffing shortages, COVID-19 lead to postponement of B.C. provincial exams
A Talon helicopter takes off from Big Timothy Mountain following a rescue operation with South Cariboo Search and Rescue and North Shore Rescue. (SCSAR photo) A Talon helicopter takes off from Big Timothy Mountain following a rescue operation with South Cariboo Search and Rescue and North Shore Rescue. (SCSAR photo)

B.C. emergency crews team up, use helicopter to rescue woman from South Cariboo mountain
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Dozens of signs were held at the Willow Inn in Quesnel on Thursday, Jan. 20 where the body of 33-year-old Carmelita Abraham was recently found. A Quesnel man is facing charges of murder and indignity to human remains. (Rebecca Dyok photo)

VIDEO: ‘No woman should go through this’ — Community gathers to honour murdered B.C. woman

Errin Holtz is challenging the residents of Nanaimo to clean up garbage from their neighbourhoods. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Resident challenging others to clean up streets as part of Great Nanaimo Garbage Grab

Beef to the lady in the beige vehicle losing her mind. It was a 30km/h school zone. If you were abiding by it there would not have been an issue that I pulled out in front of you, I would have even apologized to you.

Beefs & Bouquets, Jan. 19

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear before the Commons Finance committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 10, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

PBO report questions need for Liberals’ planned stimulus spending

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A border marker is shown just outside of Emerson, Man. on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. A Florida man will appear before a judge in Minnesota on Monday to face human smuggling charges after three people and an infant, believed to be a family from India, were found dead Wednesday just metres from the Canada-U.S. border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Focus in U.S.-Canada border tragedy to shift Monday as accused appears in court

Steve Shand, 47, will appear by video before a Minnesota judge for a detention and preliminary hearing

FILE – The Calgary Courts Centre is pictured in Calgary, Alta., Monday, March 11, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

‘I’m sorry’: Calgary parents plead guilty to neglect of disabled adult son

Hospital officials alerted Calgary police and officers charged the couple last year

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Sports
Victoria’s Pacific FC has promoted James Merriman as head coach of the Canadian Premier League club. (Photo courtesy Pacific FC)

Nanaimo soccer coach promoted to lead Victoria’s Pacific FC

James Merriman will coach defending Canadian Premier League champions

The Nanaimo Track and Field Club is putting together a bid seeking the 2024 Canadian Track and Field Championships and Olympic and Paralympic trials. (News Bulletin file photo)

City of Nanaimo supporting bid to host 2024 track and field nationals

Event would also serve as Olympic and Paralympic trials

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Entertainment
’River: A Metaphor,’ ‘Wings Over Water: A Diaspora Bird Dance,’ ‘Built Different’ and ‘The Great Might-Have-Been’ (clockwise from top-left) were among the plays staged during the 2021 Nanaimo Fringe Festival. Submissions are now open for this year’s event. (Photos courtesy Forest Ferns Photography)

Submissions now open for this year’s Nanaimo Fringe Festival

International artists once again welcome to apply as travel restrictions have loosened

Vancouver punk band D.O.A. is marking the 40th anniversary of their album ‘Hardcore 81’ by playing it live from start to finish. (Photo submitted)

Vancouver punk band D.O.A. celebrates classic album at Nanaimo concert

Band to play 40-year-old record ‘Hardcore 81’ in its entirety at the Queen’s

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Nanaimo Search and Rescue volunteers Tristan Anderson, left, and Dave Gaskill carry a tree toward a chipper during a Christmas tree chip-up fundraiser event at Country Club Centre on Saturday morning. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

Christmas tree chip-up events taking place all weekend in Nanaimo

Nanaimo Search and Rescue, Nanaimo SPCA, Salvation Army hosting fundraisers

Origin at Longwood retirement home residents and staff members with a $3,000 cheque for Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank. Origin at Longwood shared more than $6,700 in donations to five charities last month as part of its Spirit of Giving program. (Photo submitted)

Nanaimo seniors’ home raises $6,700 in Spirit of Giving program

Origin at Longwood residents and staff members donated to five charities

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Obituaries

Bill South

Jan 21st, 2022

Lorraine Hadley

Jan 13th, 2022

Niels Hansen Nielsen

Jan 12th, 2022

Kent Anders

Jan 9th, 2022

Darlene Koncar

Jan 9th, 2022

Norma Earla Elizabeth Bresden

Jan 7th, 2022

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Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 is International Lego Day. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

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    LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Skyrocketing assessments won’t mean skyrocketing tax increases

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