Greg Sakaki

VIU Mariners player Chloe Scaber gets past a Géants de Saint-Jean defender during the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association gold-medal match Saturday, March 18, in Hamilton. (Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association photo)

VIU Mariners women win national basketball championship

Program wins its first CCAA title since 1998

VIU Mariners player Chloe Scaber gets past a Géants de Saint-Jean defender during the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association gold-medal match Saturday, March 18, in Hamilton. (Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association photo)
Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at the Nanaimo Fish and Game Protective Association clubhouse on Wednesday, March 15. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

Conservative leader Poilievre promises tough-on-crime policies during Island visit

Tory leader held rally Wednesday in Nanaimo, has another planned Thursday in Greater Victoria

Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at the Nanaimo Fish and Game Protective Association clubhouse on Wednesday, March 15. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)
Andrew Harris waves to V.I. Raiders fans at Nanaimo’s Caledonia Park during a pre-game ceremony in 2012. (News Bulletin file photo)

Andrew Harris getting ready for CFL swan song and his new life on Vancouver Island

Toronto Argonauts running back also head of football operations with the Vancouver Island Raiders

Andrew Harris waves to V.I. Raiders fans at Nanaimo’s Caledonia Park during a pre-game ceremony in 2012. (News Bulletin file photo)
RCMP vehicles in the parking lot of the former White Spot restaurant along Terminal Avenue following a shooting Sunday, March 12. (Mandy Moraes/News Bulletin)

Man shot while trying to get back stolen items from Nanaimo homeless encampment

Victim suffers serious injuries, two people taken into custody

RCMP vehicles in the parking lot of the former White Spot restaurant along Terminal Avenue following a shooting Sunday, March 12. (Mandy Moraes/News Bulletin)
VIU Mariners player Jane Lytvynenko receives a serve during practice Thursday, March 2, at the Vancouver Island University gymnasium. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

VIU hosting volleyball national championships this week in Nanaimo

VIU Mariners, four-time reigning national champs, defending their title

VIU Mariners player Jane Lytvynenko receives a serve during practice Thursday, March 2, at the Vancouver Island University gymnasium. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)
VIU Mariners player Harriette Mackenzie looks to put up a shot versus the Capilano Blues in the PacWest final Saturday, March 4, at the Pacific Institute for Sport Education in Victoria. (Athena Pimental/PacWest photo)

VIU Mariners women win provincial basketball championship

M’s defeat Capilano Blues in final, advance to nationals

VIU Mariners player Harriette Mackenzie looks to put up a shot versus the Capilano Blues in the PacWest final Saturday, March 4, at the Pacific Institute for Sport Education in Victoria. (Athena Pimental/PacWest photo)
The Wee Tipple whisky and whiskey festival returns this coming weekend, March 3-4. (Adrianna Furlan photo)

Nanaimo’s Wee Tipple whisky festival makes a return

Crimson Coast Dance Society fundraiser happens March 3-4

The Wee Tipple whisky and whiskey festival returns this coming weekend, March 3-4. (Adrianna Furlan photo)
Jerry Hong, owner of the Queen’s Hotel, speaks at a rally protesting the City of Nanaimo’s plans to potentially move the downtown transit exchange to Terminal Avenue. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

VIDEO: Nanaimo citizens protest ‘scary’ plans for downtown transit exchange

Business owners and other residents raise public safety concerns

Jerry Hong, owner of the Queen’s Hotel, speaks at a rally protesting the City of Nanaimo’s plans to potentially move the downtown transit exchange to Terminal Avenue. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)
The Chemainus 49th Parallel Grocery store location. (Don Bodger/Black Press Media)

49th Parallel Grocery acquired by Country Grocer

49th Parallel stores in Duncan, Ladysmith, Cedar and Chemainus will become Country Grocer stores

The Chemainus 49th Parallel Grocery store location. (Don Bodger/Black Press Media)
V.I. Raiders alumnus Andrew Harris is returning to lead Nanaimo’s junior football club after playing one more CFL season with the Toronto Argonauts. (News Bulletin file photo)

CFL star Andrew Harris coming back to B.C. to lead his former junior football team

Harris to play last season with Toronto Argonauts then come back to head V.I. Raiders organization

V.I. Raiders alumnus Andrew Harris is returning to lead Nanaimo’s junior football club after playing one more CFL season with the Toronto Argonauts. (News Bulletin file photo)
Nanaimo RCMP are investigating after a man was found dead after possibly being struck by a vehicle along Harewood Mines Road on Friday, Jan. 27. (News Bulletin file photo)

UPDATE: Man dies in apparent hit-and-run incident in Nanaimo

RCMP investigating after body found along Harewood Mines Road on Friday, Jan. 27

Nanaimo RCMP are investigating after a man was found dead after possibly being struck by a vehicle along Harewood Mines Road on Friday, Jan. 27. (News Bulletin file photo)
Nanaimo Regional General Hospital as it looked 60 years ago. (Photo courtesy Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation)

Nanaimo hospital could use a check-up as it reaches 60th anniversary

NRGH has had significant expansion projects over the years and several more are in the works

Nanaimo Regional General Hospital as it looked 60 years ago. (Photo courtesy Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation)
A report issuing new alcohol consumption guidance for Canadians includes a recommendation for warning labels advising customers about health risks. (Stock photo)

Should alcohol have warning labels? B.C. MP says yes in crafted private motion

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released new drinking guidelines this week

A report issuing new alcohol consumption guidance for Canadians includes a recommendation for warning labels advising customers about health risks. (Stock photo)
The Nanaimo Area Network of Drug Users site in the 200 block of Nicol Street has been designated a nuisance property. (News Bulletin file photo)

Nanaimo declares ‘open-air crack house’ harm-reduction site a nuisance property

Councillors lament lack of resources directed to peer-led overdose prevention tent

The Nanaimo Area Network of Drug Users site in the 200 block of Nicol Street has been designated a nuisance property. (News Bulletin file photo)
Shaun Alexander Grant is the new year’s baby for Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, and also for Vancouver Island. (Photo submitted)

Vancouver Island’s new year’s baby born to the sound of fireworks

Shaun Alexander Grant was born Jan. 1 at 12:15 a.m. at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital

Shaun Alexander Grant is the new year’s baby for Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, and also for Vancouver Island. (Photo submitted)
Nanaimo Fire Rescue firefighters arrived at Bowen and Latimer roads in the early morning Thursday, Dec. 29, to find a house fully engulfed in flames. (Nanaimo Fire Rescue photo)

House in Nanaimo that had power cut off destroyed by fire

Firefighters arrived to find house on Bowen Road fully engulfed in flames

Nanaimo Fire Rescue firefighters arrived at Bowen and Latimer roads in the early morning Thursday, Dec. 29, to find a house fully engulfed in flames. (Nanaimo Fire Rescue photo)
Premier David Eby announces Sheila Malcolmson as B.C.’s new minister of social development and poverty reduction on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Government House in Victoria. (B.C. government photo)

B.C.’s new poverty reduction minister and all of cabinet asked to ‘work fast’ following shuffle

Former minister of mental health and addictions Sheila Malcolmson takes on new portfolio

Premier David Eby announces Sheila Malcolmson as B.C.’s new minister of social development and poverty reduction on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Government House in Victoria. (B.C. government photo)
Keiko the 14-year-old pug gets himself unstuck from behind a couch. (Image courtesy Shelby Jack/@glambyshelby)

Old pug’s bewilderment after getting lost in its Vancouver Island home makes for viral video

Fashion and lifestyle content creator’s new TikTok followers want to see more of her 14-year-old dog

Keiko the 14-year-old pug gets himself unstuck from behind a couch. (Image courtesy Shelby Jack/@glambyshelby)
Nurses march along Boundary Avenue outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Thursday, Nov. 24. (Photo courtesy Kath Kitts)

B.C. nurses rally to demand action with health-care system ‘in a state of crisis’

‘Traumatic’: nurses cite overcrowded ERs, drastic staffing shortfalls and extended waits for care

Nurses march along Boundary Avenue outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Thursday, Nov. 24. (Photo courtesy Kath Kitts)
Rupesh Amin, CEO of Conqora Capital Partners, investors in Vancouver Island Ferry Company, at the company’s launch event Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Port of Nanaimo. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)

Fast ferry service between Nanaimo and Vancouver slated to start next summer

New Vancouver Island Ferry Company holds launch event

Rupesh Amin, CEO of Conqora Capital Partners, investors in Vancouver Island Ferry Company, at the company’s launch event Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Port of Nanaimo. (Greg Sakaki/News Bulletin)
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