Patti Mertz

The Nanaimo RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 15-year-old Ava Brown of Nanaimo, who was reported missing on Friday March 4, 2022. She was last seen...

Workers at Vancouver Island Regional libraries could go on strike this week. The last collective agreement between the library and BCGEU Local 702 expired at the end of 2020. In a...

Investigators are combing through the rubble of a Nanaimo home at 306 Pine Street that exploded into pieces at around 8:20pm Sunday night. The explosion also knocked down a nearby...

North Island College has announced that it is creating its first on-campus student housing project. The Comox Valley campus in Courtenay will see 157 individual and 60 family-specific options in...

One person is dead following a workplace fatality in Coombs.  Oceanside RCMP confirm that a crew was blocking a 62-foot long mobile home Wednesday afternoon, when one of the workers...

BC Daycares are set to receive $20million dollars to beef up their defenses against the Omicron covid variant.  The new, one time Health and Safety grant can be used to...

Programs that address homelessness issues can apply for the recently-opened second intake for BC’s Strengthening Communities' Services Program. The Strengthening Communities' Services Program gives local governments and First Nations additional...

The Nanaimo RCMP requests the public's assistance locating a missing 35 year old woman. Megan Paquette of Nanaimo is described as a 35-year-old Indigenous woman with long brown hair and...