Karl Yu

The scene outside the courthouse in Nanaimo after Angela (Rainbow Eyes) Davidson, Green Party of Canada deputy leader and Fairy Creek protester, was sentenced Wednesday, April 24. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Green Party deputy leader and Fairy Creek protester sentenced to jail time

Angela (Rainbow Eyes) Davidson sentenced April 24 in B.C. Supreme Court on Vancouver Island

The scene outside the courthouse in Nanaimo after Angela (Rainbow Eyes) Davidson, Green Party of Canada deputy leader and Fairy Creek protester, was sentenced Wednesday, April 24. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Hullo ferries is expecting loud and energetic hockey fans on their sailings to and from Vancouver Canucks home playoff games this spring. (Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)

Hullo ferrying energetic Island fans to, from Vancouver Canucks playoff games

Foot-passenger ferry between Nanaimo and Vancouver schedules special-event sailings on game nights

Hullo ferries is expecting loud and energetic hockey fans on their sailings to and from Vancouver Canucks home playoff games this spring. (Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)
Summations began Thursday, April 18, in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver for the trial of Paris Jayanne Laroche, 28, charged with murder and interfering with a dead body. (News Bulletin file photo)

As trial closes, defence says abuse led B.C. woman to kill ex with hammer

Counsel for Paris Jayanne Laroche, 28, Crown begin summations in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver

Summations began Thursday, April 18, in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver for the trial of Paris Jayanne Laroche, 28, charged with murder and interfering with a dead body. (News Bulletin file photo)
B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeal in Vancouver. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

Murder trial of Nanaimo woman adjourned as police interview new witness

Paris Jayanne Laroche, 28, on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver for murder of Sidney Mantee

B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeal in Vancouver. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
Sanket Palit and Caitlyn Santos chat at a speed-dating event on a Hullo ferry that sailed to and from Nanaimo on Feb. 1. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Nanaimo-Vancouver fast ferry love boat has a place in modern matchmaking

Hullo ferry offered speed dating event this month in time for Valentine’s Day

Sanket Palit and Caitlyn Santos chat at a speed-dating event on a Hullo ferry that sailed to and from Nanaimo on Feb. 1. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Hullo will host a high-speed speed dating ferry event on Thursday, Feb. 1, from Nanaimo to Vancouver and back. (News Bulletin file photo)

Nanaimo-Vancouver fast ferry will become ‘high-speed speed dating’ love boat

Sold-out special event sailing happening Feb. 1 ahead of Valentine’s Day

Hullo will host a high-speed speed dating ferry event on Thursday, Feb. 1, from Nanaimo to Vancouver and back. (News Bulletin file photo)
A Nanaimo woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend is on trial this week at the courthouse in Vancouver. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Trial starts for B.C. woman accused of murdering, dismembering ex-boyfriend

Nanaimo’s Paris Laroche on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver

A Nanaimo woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend is on trial this week at the courthouse in Vancouver. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
The courthouse in Nanaimo. (News Bulletin file photo)

B.C. man ‘possessed by demon’ sentenced for stabbing seniors

Anthony Rouskov Nielsen will serve concurrent 5 1/2-year sentences for hallucination-fuelled attacks

The courthouse in Nanaimo. (News Bulletin file photo)
The BC Ferries vessel the Coastal Renaissance will remain out of service until mid December. (News Bulletin file photo)

Broken-down Nanaimo-Tsawwassen ferry won’t be back in service until December

Coastal Renaissance’s motor undergoing repairs in Indiana

The BC Ferries vessel the Coastal Renaissance will remain out of service until mid December. (News Bulletin file photo)
Nanaimo RCMP closed a section of Hammond Bay Road in March 6, 2019, after a pedestrian was hit at the Brigantine Drive intersection. (News Bulletin file photo)

Parents in B.C. awarded damages based on Korean tradition after son’s death

17-year-old was struck and killed by vehicle at crosswalk on Vancouver Island in 2019

Nanaimo RCMP closed a section of Hammond Bay Road in March 6, 2019, after a pedestrian was hit at the Brigantine Drive intersection. (News Bulletin file photo)
Nanaimo RCMP at the scene of a stabbing incident in the Victoria Crescent area in downtown Nanaimo the morning of Sept. 6. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

Man stabbed, taken to hospital, after altercation on Vancouver Island

Suspect taken into custody, says Nanaimo RCMP, and man taken to hospital

Nanaimo RCMP at the scene of a stabbing incident in the Victoria Crescent area in downtown Nanaimo the morning of Sept. 6. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)
BC Ferries has probed failure of the engine on the Coastal Renaissance ferry servicing Nanaimo and Tsawwassen. (Photo courtesy BC Ferries)

Ferry servicing Nanaimo-Tsawwassen anticipated to be out until October

BC Ferries updates travellers about Coastal Renaissance’s engine breakdown

BC Ferries has probed failure of the engine on the Coastal Renaissance ferry servicing Nanaimo and Tsawwassen. (Photo courtesy BC Ferries)
The Coastal Renaissance vessel will be out for weeks after an engine failure, says BC Ferries. (News Bulletin file photo)

Engine failure will take Nanaimo-Tsawwassen ferry out of service for weeks

BC Ferries CEO says contingency plans being worked on in Coastal Renaissance’s absence

The Coastal Renaissance vessel will be out for weeks after an engine failure, says BC Ferries. (News Bulletin file photo)
After cancellations earlier this week, Hullo officially began ferry service from Nanaimo to Vancouver on Wednesday, Aug. 16. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Foot ferry makes long-awaited first sailing from Nanaimo to Vancouver

Maiden voyage for Hullo ferries delayed two days due to winds and power outage

After cancellations earlier this week, Hullo officially began ferry service from Nanaimo to Vancouver on Wednesday, Aug. 16. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Alastair Caddick, Hullo CEO, sits aboard one of the high-speed passenger ferries during a media event on Thursday, July 20. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Hullo fast ferries begin Island-Mainland service starting in mid August

Vancouver Island Ferry Company announces initial sailing schedule for Nanaimo-Vancouver ferries

Alastair Caddick, Hullo CEO, sits aboard one of the high-speed passenger ferries during a media event on Thursday, July 20. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Vancouver Island Ferry Company’s Hullo vessels at the Damen Group facility in Vietnam. (CNW Group/Vancouver Island Ferry Company photo)
Vancouver Island Ferry Company’s Hullo vessels at the Damen Group facility in Vietnam. (CNW Group/Vancouver Island Ferry Company photo)
Capt. Malcolm Rodger, B.C. Ferries’ manager of simulation training, talks about computer equipment used to train employees to operate vessels during a demonstration at the Departure Bay ferry terminal on May 10. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

B.C. Ferries workers train on simulated seas at Vancouver Island ferry terminal

B.C. Ferries provides tour of new training facility in Nanaimo

Capt. Malcolm Rodger, B.C. Ferries’ manager of simulation training, talks about computer equipment used to train employees to operate vessels during a demonstration at the Departure Bay ferry terminal on May 10. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Jeanne Rudy uses wax and dye to make Ukrainian Easter eggs. Rudy was at the the Ukrainian Easter Bazaar at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Nanaimo on Saturday, April 1. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

VIDEO: In pursuit of perfect egg: a B.C. woman’s guide to making Ukrainian Easter eggs

Nanaimo’s Jeanne Rudy discusses her pysanky process at Nanaimo Ukrainian Easter Bazaar

Jeanne Rudy uses wax and dye to make Ukrainian Easter eggs. Rudy was at the the Ukrainian Easter Bazaar at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Nanaimo on Saturday, April 1. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Selina Robinson, B.C.’s minister of post-secondary education, announces the expansion of the province’s tuition waiver program for former youths in care at a press conference Tuesday, March 14, at Vancouver Island University. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

B.C. government expanding post-secondary tuition waiver for former youths in care

Program will be available to former youths in care of any age starting this summer

Selina Robinson, B.C.’s minister of post-secondary education, announces the expansion of the province’s tuition waiver program for former youths in care at a press conference Tuesday, March 14, at Vancouver Island University. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Doug Ettinger, president and CEO of Canada Post, speaks at a press conference announcing that Nanaimo’s Canada Post depot is the first in the country to boast an all-electric corporate delivery fleet. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)

Canada Post announces its first all-electric delivery fleet is in Nanaimo

Crown corporation making announcement today at East Wellington Road depot

Doug Ettinger, president and CEO of Canada Post, speaks at a press conference announcing that Nanaimo’s Canada Post depot is the first in the country to boast an all-electric corporate delivery fleet. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)