Category Archives: Local News

QUALICUM BEACH - Quick thinking by an Oceanside Mountie led to the arrest of two suspects accused of having counterfeit U-S money. While investigating a robbery in Qualicum Beach August 2, the officer...

NANAIMO - There's no wildfires burning on Vancouver Island, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the horizon. Large plumes of smoke from the fires burning in B.C.'s Interior have arrived, bringing a...

NANAIMO - Nanaimo RCMP confirmed the body of Robert Hudson, who was first reported missing on Saturday, was found Sunday afternoon. His body was discovered near the Nanaimo River by members of the pub...

QUALICUM BEACH - Oceanside RCMP are looking for a man who held up the TD Canada Trust in Qualicum Beach. Around 2:45 p.m on July 29, a man walked up to a teller and handed her a note saying he had a g...

PARKSVILLE - Attendance through the first two weeks of the Parksville Beach festival has organizers optimistic that it will be another big year. A record 133,430 people went through the gates in 2016 ...

NANAIMO - Crews from across Vancouver Island have been brought in to help find a missing Qualicum Beach man. Nanaimo RCMP said Robert Hudson's car was found empty on Nanaimo River Rd. at approximately...

PARKSVILLE - A section of the community park in Parksville will be closed for construction for the entire month of August. City crews will be doing beach restoration work at Arbutus Point and as a res...

QUALICUM BEACH - A Qualicum Beach business owner has found herself stuck between a rock and a bylaw. Colleen Christensen, owner of Ruff N' Stuff Dog Grooming, is fighting three rarely issued municipal...

PARKSVILLE - When you ask a long time resident of Parksville about the Banks family, the first thing that probably comes to mind is the volunteer fire department. Retired fire chief Doug Banks' grandf...

QUALICUM BEACH, B.C. - A British Columbia man's relaxing beachcombing trip turned into a harrowing fight for survival against a grizzly bear that flailed him around "like a puppet." Randal Warnock, 57...