Jeff Lawrence

Nanaimo RCMP says an eight-year-old boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was struck by a vehicle in a school parking lot.

A new off-leash dog park opened in Langford last week in a unique partnership between the municipality and Walmart Canada.

Nanaimo City Council has approved a provisional budget that would raise property taxes and user fees to fund major investments in public safety, including the hiring of more police officers.

A man escaped safely along with his two cats after a fire broke out in his downtown Nanaimo home Wednesday morning.

The City of Colwood has taken another step toward opening a municipally run clinic that will be the first of its kind in Canada with the hiring of a new family doctor.

Cowichan Tribes and the Municipality of North Cowichan have reached a deal to buy a 1.7-hectare parcel of land that was the former home of an RCMP detachment, with the intent to relocate emergency services and public works there.

Environment Canada has extended a wind warning from northern Vancouver Island to the Nanaimo area, and has also issued a special weather statement for the Greater Victoria area due to incoming strong winds.

Reaching a balmy 16.5 degrees Celsius on Saturday, Dec. 21, Tofino set a new monthly record for its warmest day ever recorded in December,

There's great news out on the water southeast of Victoria after researchers confirmed a new calf has been born to a group of endangered southern resident orca whales.

Environment Canada is warning of a series of storms set to hit coastal British Columbia over Christmas that will bring gusts of up to 100 kilometres per hour to parts of Vancouver Island.