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Winter holidays bring good times, celebrations and parties. But winter holidays also bring an increased amount of impaired drivers to the roads.

Nanaimo homeowners are looking at an eight per cent property tax hike after council passed the provisional financial plan.

Construction has started on a new 47 bed housing facility for women and children facing gender-based violence in Nanaimo.

Finding love on choppy waters isn’t always that easy, but with Valentine's Day in the next couple of months, there’s a great opportunity to find your forever first mate. Hullo and the Vancouver Island Ferry Company are here to help with that. 

Nanaimo city council voted 8-1 on Monday to not build affordable housing on any portion of the Five Acres Farm at 933 Park Ave.

Nanaimo City Council on Monday voted to amend the service agreement for the Downtown Vandalism Relief Grant program. Businesses in the downtown area will now be able to apply more than twice a year and receive up to $2,500 per incident up to a maximum of $5,000 per year. This money may also include up to 50 per cent of the cost of installation of security and preventative measures to a maximum of $1,000. 

Nanaimo City Council voted on Wednesday to increase the budget for the free shower program at Caledonia Park.

Transit workers in Comox and Campbell River went on strike Friday morning citing wages as the key stumbling block to an agreement with Pacific Western Transportation that BC Transit contracts services to in the area.

A new mural at the Nanaimo Aquatic Center showcases communities coming together and transitioning hate to hope. 

Three warming centres will be opening in Naniamo this winter, but two are located downtown within 500 metres of each other and the president of the Nanaimo Area Public Safety Association says that will exacerbate social disorder in the area.

A pond near Qualicum Beach Elementary is getting a new name after a local teacher wrote to the town council informing them that the students voted to name it Salamander Pond.

Santa Claus was spotted flying over Nanaimo early Tuesday morning, but left his sleigh at home instead opting for a flight in a helicopter that landed at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

Recent figures show illicit drug poisonings attended by the BC Emergency Health Services in Nanaimo are more than double the per capita rate when compared to other communities within  Island Health.

The Nanaimo Art Gallery is currently looking for a new place to call home. During a city council meeting on December 4th, the art gallery presented an update on the “Future Gallery” project’s next steps. 

Nanaimo’s Jewish community marked the first night of ​​Chanukah with the lighting of a giant Menorah at Maffeo Sutton Park.

Island Health is ramping up its Covid and Influenza vaccine campaign with free walk-in clinics for children between six months and 11 years of age.

Vancouver Island Univerisity gathered to remember the worst act of violent misogyny in Canadian history. It has been over 30 years since the École Polytechnique Montreal massacre that took the lives of 14 women on December 6th 1989. The day is a part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign which begins November 25, the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and goes until December 10th, World Human Rights Day. The vigil at VIU had speakers, poets, a singer and a dancer. All gathered to honour the 14 women and those living through and those lost to gender-based violence.

Over the last week, the Nanaimo City Council has had the chance to discuss next year’s financial plan and on Monday Dember 4th, residents finally had their chance to speak. An E-town hall was held to present the draft financial plan and allow the city council to hear feedback from city residents. In the beginning, the audience was given an overview of what the drafted plan currently looks like. The audience gasped at the new projected 8 per cent property tax hike discussed at last Friday’s finance and audit committee meeting. Questions were asked about the Nanaimo Prosperity Corporation, the city’s borrow habits, what cuts the city are making, the budget around recreational services.

Nanaimo city council voted 7-2 to redo an Alternative Approval Process to take out a $48.5 million loan for a new public works yard in Nanaimo after the previous one run in November was found to have been done without giving proper notice.

The City of Nanaimo is looking at increasing property taxes by eight per cent in 2024 as of Friday’s finance and audit committee meeting.