Business

Taking off for a summer holiday is getting even easier at Nanaimo Airport.

Les Anderson has dreamed of a trail linking Island communities for years and sees the current railway trouble as the prefect opportunity for serious discussion.

An aquacultural field station devoted to shellfish farming is not only helping to revitalize coastal and First Nations communities, but it is also the recipient of the 2011 National Green Buildings Awards.

Nanaimo businesses back art program

To help grow and promote Vancouver Island tourism, communities of Nanaimo, Parksville and Qualicum (Oceanside), Cowichan Valley and Port Alberni received provincial funding toward marketing and development projects.

In the 50 years that Don Yuen has been in the grocery business, the Fairway Market owner has come a long way since not knowing the English names of the vegetables he was selling.

A piece of Nanaimo's history is getting spruced up this summer as the Quarterway Pub undergoes renovations.

The Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce has a new team at the helm to guide it through the last half of 2011 and into 2012.

Credit union members donate rebates

The value of building permits issued in B.C. continued to rise compared to the year before, according to April building permit numbers released by Statistics Canada.