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Watershed monitoring targeting trends

NANAIMO - Community Watershed Monitoring Network helps target trends in local watersheds and raise awareness.

Gabriola bus funding proposal to be considered by RDN board

NANAIMO - Gabriola Community Bus committee hopes to ride on funds from the RDN's Community Works Fund.

HEALTHY YOU: Stress could result in physical illness

NANAIMO – In today’s high-stress, fast-paced society, it is more important than ever to keep our mental health in check.

Nanaimo Boat Basin

Battle for the boat basin

NANAIMO – Port Authority responds to concerns about a marina lease agreement with a private company,while opponents remain skeptical.

Nanaimo Boat Basin

RDN begins consultation process to legalize secondary suites

NANAIMO – Electoral areas within the RDN will soon be called upon for input into the district's Secondary Suites Consultation Plan

Heavy fog grounds flights out of Nanaimo

NANAIMO – Flight service has resumed after an unusual ridge of high pressure grounded flights out of Nanaimo over the past week.

Lantzville councillor calls for investigation on colleague over controversial bylaw

NANAIMO - Lantzville councillor Brian Dempsey could be the subject of a bylaw investigation following a notice of motion filed Jan. 14

RDN aims to keep increases to cost of living

NANAIMO – Budget discussions have begun at the Regional District of Nanaimo, where staff and board directors strive to keep the status quo

Gabriola Island residents hacking away at pertussis outbreak

NANAIMO – Health officials are reminding parents to ensure their children are vaccinated after an outbreak of pertussis affects 14.

Demonstrators from the national Idle No More movement make their way down Comox Road to Terminal Avenue Saturday.

Nanaimo Idle No More protesters pledge further demonstrations

NANAIMO – More than 400 people amassed at Maffeo Sutton Park in support of the nationwide movement

Demonstrators from the national Idle No More movement make their way down Comox Road to Terminal Avenue Saturday.

RDN to increase solid waste collection fees and implement user-pay green bins

NANAIMO – Regional board directors have approved amendments to the bylaw that will increase collection from $134 to $147.75 in 2013

Library seeks approval for a $9.5-million loan for Harbourfront branch

NANAIMO – The Vancouver Island Regional Library is looking to borrow $9.5 million through the RDN to purchase and renovate downtown branch

Early cases of norovirus and influenza detected in Nanaimo

NANAIMO – The nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head fever so you can't rest season is upon us.

Joscelin Martin, 10, left, and Jordan Connors, 8, concentrate on their repertoire during a VanIsle Fiddlers session at Fairview Community School Thursday afternoon.

Fiddle fun

NANAIMO – VanIsle Fiddlers focuses on traditional folk and contemporary fiddle music.

Joscelin Martin, 10, left, and Jordan Connors, 8, concentrate on their repertoire during a VanIsle Fiddlers session at Fairview Community School Thursday afternoon.

Land trust asks for restoration of grant

NANAIMO – The Nanaimo Area Land Trust hopes to restore crucial funding provided by the Regional District of Nanaimo.

Park Avenue parents raising money for playground

NANAIMO - Parents at Park Avenue Community School hope to raise $20,000 by the end of the school year for playground equipment

Cody Clark and Tara-May Strueby welcome their first born son, Chase, into the world. He was born on Jan. 2, making the couple the first Nanaimo family to start the new year with a baby in 2013.

Baby’s late arrival in time for new year

NANAIMO – Clark-Strueby family first local couple to welcome child in 2013 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

Cody Clark and Tara-May Strueby welcome their first born son, Chase, into the world. He was born on Jan. 2, making the couple the first Nanaimo family to start the new year with a baby in 2013.

Idle No More protest planned for Saturday

NANAIMO – Following the success of rallies in Ladysmith and Woodgrove Mall, an Idle No More protest will take place Jan. 12 at Maffeo Sutton

Volunteer Denny Lien, left, takes a rest from piling trees with Nanaimo and District SPCA branch manager Leon Davis Sunday afternoon.

Stacks of green

Nanaimo SPCA tree-chipping fundraiser nets more than $3,000

Volunteer Denny Lien, left, takes a rest from piling trees with Nanaimo and District SPCA branch manager Leon Davis Sunday afternoon.

COLUMN: New Years a time for lifestyle changes, not resolutions

NANAIMO – Residents are ready to ring in the new year after a tumultuous 2012.