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More than a dozen volunteers with Nanaimo Search and Rescue were called out to help a couple of teenagers who got stuck while driving on some logging roads behind Boomerang Lake Wednesday.

On the heels of a successful salmon return to local waters so far this season, the Pacific Salmon Foundation will host its ninth annual charity dinner, dance and auction on Nov. 26 at Beban Park.

Students and teachers at Vancouver Island University are more concerned about provincial funding for post-secondary institutions and employee wages than what the president makes.

A Nanaimo Homelessness advocate wants people to experience what it’s like to be homeless for one night by sleeping in Maffeo Sutton Park Saturday.

A symposium designed to create a strategy for long-term of protection of the Nanaimo River held over the weekend was a success in that it united stakeholders and initiated a flow of ideas, said Gail Adrienne, executive director of Nanaimo and Area Land Trust, which hosted the event.

Organization launching Project NALT, Part II

On Monday, the global health organization released its list of measurements ranking 1,100 cities in 91 countries for air quality between 2003 and 2010. Canada finished third in the world for best air quality, tied with Australia, while Nanaimo finished in the Top 10 for all cities.

Nanaimo's largest taxpayer celebrates 30 years in the community on Friday.

Roaring Twenties gala raises money for healthy cooking sessions.

In an effort to reduce conflict among neighbours, an occurrence that sparked the original debate regarding Compassion farm, Haime has explored making the 138 hectares of ALR in Lantzville more accessible for urban agriculture supporters by proposing smaller lots and tax incentives for people who want to make a modest living producing food on smaller lots.