Category Archives: Local News

QUALICUM BEACH - If you've ever wanted to be a firefighter, or maybe you're looking for a new career, the Qualicum Beach Fire Department might be able to help. They have started a recruitment drive to...

PARKSVILLE - Oceanside RCMP had to bring out the dogs to catch a man who'd been acting suspiciously. According to RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman, the K9 unit was called after Wayne Douglas Lyster, 45, fled f...

PARKSVILLE - Three gunshot blasts rang out in south Parksville early Wednesday morning, according to Oceanside RCMP. Cpl. Jesse Foreman said police responded to a Martindale Rd. property where two aba...

PARKSVILLE - Construction is underway on a critically important project for the Oceanside region. A shovel in the ground ceremony was held at the City of Parksville's industrial park today, April 4, t...

PARKSVILLE - Oceanside RCMP are asking for the public's help finding a missing teen. Mounties report Vienna Isabella Beaudry, 14, was last seen by family in the early evening of Saturday, April 1. "Sh...

PARKSVILLE - Oceanside RCMP say they've seen early success with a new program designed to help people not be victimized by crime. "Secure-Us" was brought to the detachment by one of their auxiliaries ...

PARKSVILLE - Hallmark Channel will be back on the mid-island for a second season of the television series 'Chesapeake Shores'. Local casting for extras is underway for the series which will begin film...

PARKSVILLE - There's no shortage of amazing places around the mid-island and a new tourism campaign aims to highlight some of the best. The Amazing Places Project officially launched Thursday night in...

PARKSVILLE - It's a multilevel approach to a problem that every community deals with. Last week, the City of Parksville's affordable and supportive housing project received a $30-thousand dollar devel...

PARKSVILLE - A Parksville study has been funded to look into where more affordable rental housing can be placed. The Island Crisis Care Society received $30,000 from the provincial government for the ...