The shooting that sent a 49 year-old man to the hospital has led to charges being laid. Thirty-seven-year-old Craig Truckle of no fixed address has been arrested, according to Nanaimo RCMP. At around 11 p.m. on March 22, Truckle was arrested in downtown Nanaimo by officers, and taken into custody. Truckle was...

Dr. Evan Adams has rejoined the First Nations Health Authority as a part-time Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Adams was the FNHA’s inaugural Chief Medical Officer from 2014 to 2020. He's a member of the Tla’amin First Nation in Powell River and studied medicine at the University of Calgary and did...

Eighteen organizations on Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands are sharing $525,000 in grants to increase sustainability in food production, assist seniors, and help people who have suffered brain injuries. The money is being distributed by the Victoria Foundation and funded by the national Investment Readiness Program to help...

An update from United Way BC is part of this week’s regular city council meeting in Port Hardy. They’ll be giving a presentation, providing an update on the organization’s progress with ongoing challenges within the community. Those challenges include a lack of access to basic needs, the effects of inflation, rising...

The Mount Waddington Regional District is making their seasonal changes to the transit system, starting Saturday, April 1st. The changes were recently announced by both the District and BC Transit will impact multiple routes in the area. For the Port McNeill and Port Hardy routes, regular Saturday service will be...

Public school workers throughout the province will be officially getting a 6.75% wage increase this summer. The news in a release from Cupe BC who says this helps bring total general wage increases up to 10 percent for the first two years of the agreement, affecting most of the members....