• Canucks continue to struggle at home, fall 6-3 to Philadelphia Flyers

    Five players had two points apiece, helping the visiting Philadelphia Flyers to a 6-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Tuesday at Rogers Arena.
    Bobby Brink, Noah Cates and Travis Konecny each had a goal and an assist for Philadelphia (20-11-7). Carl Grundstrom and Owen Tippett added single goals and Matvei Michkov and Trevor Zegras had two helpers apiece for the winners, with goalie Dan Vladar stopping 31 of 34 shots.
    David Kampf and Drew O’Connor scored for Vancouver (16-2
  • Canadian Forces SAR TECHs assist in technical rescue of Cariboo suspect

    Comox-based Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR TECH) were called in for their technical support after a suspect is said to have fled from an attempted traffic stop in Williams Lake.
    On Dec. 28, local RCMP were responding to multiple complaints of a suspected drunk driver in and around the city.
    When RCMP officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop, police said the suspect vehicle fled.
    They said the man later crashed the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot. In the process of attempting to ev
  • Nanaimo News Bulletin’s most-clicked news stories of 2025

    1. Both Nanaimo sailors who were missing have now been found safe, Aug. 15.
    Nanaimo RCMP reported that both of the sailors who had been reported missing the previous week had been located and both were safe.
    “The Nanaimo RCMP would like to thank the public for the outpouring of tips that assisted in finding both persons in a timely manner,” noted a police press release.
    Police said that numerous tips helped them first locate the 33-year-old woman who had been reported missing, as wel
  • ‘Fellow in yellow’ arrives at Mile 0 in Victoria, heads up Island

    For many, Mile 0 in Victoria is a start, and for some it’s an end.The marker near Dallas Road identifies the western end of more than 8,000 kilometres of Trans-Canada Highway that crosses the nation.For Trevor Redmond – who paused at the Terry Fox statue and dipped a toe in the nearby Salish Sea on Monday (Dec. 29) – it’s a kind of restart.“It’s a different meaning here to me. I think it is everyone else’s mile zero, it isn’t mine,” Redmond t
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