Recent articles

1. Weekly community meal provides hot meals — and job training for neurodiverse youth 27 Mar 2025 18:30:45
2. Cowichan Valley film fest showcases renowned documentaries — local and global — to inform and inspire 20 Mar 2025 23:02:16
3. Advocates call for wraparound care and community health centre for women in Cowichan 20 Mar 2025 22:41:58
4. Herring Spawn arrives in Nanaimo 20 Mar 2025 20:58:11
5. Vancouver Island outdoor enthusiasts want authorities to ‘open the gates’ to the backcountry. Here’s why it’s complicated. 13 Mar 2025 22:58:05
6. How much crime in Nanaimo is drug related? 13 Mar 2025 22:18:30
7. Duncan protestors want harsher punishments and forced treatment for drug users. Will it solve the underlying issues? 13 Mar 2025 22:13:31
8. Air quality in the City of Courtenay is improving thanks to local initiatives, report says 13 Mar 2025 00:23:03
9. Meet some of Nanaimo’s powerful women 6 Mar 2025 20:43:30
10. ‘Harmonious’ and ‘challenging’: Nanaimo artist celebrates metamorphosis in new street banner design 4 Mar 2025 23:51:22
11. Nanaimo city council recording ban violates civil liberties, experts say 28 Feb 2025 01:37:40
12. Reporter’s Notebook: How a salmon puppet is helping save the Quw’utsun Sta’lo 27 Feb 2025 23:50:19
13. Comox Valley Farmers’ market and partners up for 10 awards 27 Feb 2025 01:21:38
14. Former youth in care featured in photo exhibit at VIU 26 Feb 2025 00:42:23
15. Drop in 2024 Nanaimo overdose deaths ‘a fraction’ of overall trend upwards 22 Feb 2025 00:32:27
16. Province ends take-home safer supply program as Cowichan sees uptick in overdose response calls 21 Feb 2025 23:04:16
17. Sudden changes to safer supply program a ‘huge mistake,’ says Nanaimo patient 21 Feb 2025 20:49:23
18. Biscuits and marmot-friendly weather contributing to Vancouver Island marmot baby boom 20 Feb 2025 01:40:23
19. In photos: Hundreds march to honour MMIWG2S+ and bring justice for harms that ‘never, ever should have happened’ 19 Feb 2025 20:55:01
20. Cowichan Valley transit workers are on strike, here’s why 14 Feb 2025 00:23:56
21. ‘Fingers crossed,’ Comox Valley Farmers’ Market awaits renewal of coupon program 13 Feb 2025 00:08:23
22. Outgoing Cowichan Green Community executive director reflects on 17 years of work 7 Feb 2025 00:20:52
23. Nanaimo addictions doctor behind pop up overdose site resigns in protest 6 Feb 2025 22:32:28
24. Poll: Climate change a top concern for Canadian farmers 6 Feb 2025 00:30:31
25. Trust Fall exhibit at Nanaimo Art Gallery ‘embraces the happy accident’ 5 Feb 2025 00:44:05
26. Reporter’s notebook: How a news story erased the Cow-op’s debt 24 Jan 2025 00:27:50
27. Cowichan Tribes purchases former RCMP detachment to house public works and emergency services departments 24 Jan 2025 00:06:17
28. Nanaimo mayor calls for more involuntary care 23 Jan 2025 22:36:09
29. Winter backcountry travel: where to start 23 Jan 2025 00:34:13
30. Lighting up Nanaimo’s future 21 Jan 2025 22:42:30
31. Some of the best places to camp near the Cowichan Valley 16 Jan 2025 23:05:36
32. The best places to camp near Nanaimo 16 Jan 2025 21:42:53
33. Comox Valley camping: where to go and what to know 16 Jan 2025 00:25:32
34. Q&A: The Stand’s filmmaker on the relevance of the 1985 Haida Gwaii blockade today 15 Jan 2025 00:20:40
35. Local advocates look ahead to a healthier year for Somenos Lake 10 Jan 2025 01:02:19
36. Deep Water Recovery fined more than $46K in relation to effluent discharge into Baynes Sound 10 Jan 2025 00:06:37
37. VIU basketball team supports trans teammate, boycotts games at bible college 9 Jan 2025 22:35:55
38. Atticus Mercredi talks about Prophecy Club’s ‘angry Indigenous music’ 8 Jan 2025 00:28:41
39. Year-round drop-in centre for people who are unhoused in Nanaimo to open in January 20 Dec 2024 01:05:09
40. A Cowichan Valley conservation project is giving bluebirds a place to call home 19 Dec 2024 23:59:20
41. Hot topic: Comox Valley residents concerned about impact of wood stove smoke on health, environment 19 Dec 2024 01:16:13
42. Why Nanaimo postal workers are striking 13 Dec 2024 01:14:33
43. Winter market at the HUB spotlights Indigenous artists 13 Dec 2024 00:47:30
44. Comox Valley for Palestine raises more than $5k for children’s centre in Egypt 11 Dec 2024 23:54:01
45. The long road home for newcomers to Nanaimo 23 Feb 2024 02:27:41
46. Coalition plans renewed effort to address homelessness in Cowichan 15 Feb 2024 23:34:50
47. Two new active transportation paths planned to connect the Comox Valley 15 Feb 2024 00:04:34
48. Exploring family history through art 14 Feb 2024 00:16:41
49. ‘A solution that nobody even imagined’: The Village as a model for housing and mental health and addictions support 9 Feb 2024 01:48:54
50. ‘Need has skyrocketed’ for Comox Valley Farmers’ Market coupon program 7 Feb 2024 23:21:59