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• Dog ownership split between multiple exes makes for tricky B.C. custody case

  25-05-2022 21:27 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. woman ordered to return dog to ex, ex’s old partner despite claim it was gifted to her verbally
  
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• Injured Nanaimo sea lion no cause for concern says rescue society

  23-03-2026 18:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  With March underway, sea lions are back on Nanaimo’s coastal shores as the marine mammals make the most of the herring run.
  Among them, is one with a severe jaw injury that has resulted in several people reporting to the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society, but the society advised it is aware of him and people need not be concerned.
  According to Dr. Martin Haulena, rescue society’s head veterinarian and executive director, the injuries were first spotted in 2022.
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• Alberni Valley Rescue Squad saves hiker on 5040 Peak trail during snowy night

  23-03-2026 18:07 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Alberni Valley Rescue Squad helped a hiker who was separated from their group at night on March 21. The group had been hiking the 5040 Peak trail.
  During a hike, the group was able to maintain some communication with their separated companion through satellite messaging, after they realized they weren’t able to reunite, they called search and rescue. Search crews encountered snow and steep terrain during their operation, an AVRS member posted on social media.
  Members from the hoist tea
  
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• Threatfuli: Meet Revelstoke’s internationally acclaimed butterfly guy

  23-03-2026 18:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Walking around downtown Revelstoke every day, 81-year-old Dave Threatful always has time to chat about anything — but of all topics, butterflies strike a chord.
  He enjoys stopping by the Revelstoke Review office each week to discuss the latest news, as well as the diverse range of wildlife that the inland temperate rainforest has to offer.
  Several times in the last year, Threatful has helped Black Press Media identify butterfly species photographed around Revelstoke and Rogers Pass. In the
  
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• Tick talk: take care, as creatures can spread disease

  23-03-2026 17:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Interior Health is warning people to beware of ticks, hard on the heels of a report of a six-year-old boy in Merritt who was partially paralyzed by a tick bite after a walk on March 8.
  Milo Stevens was out hiking with his father Jamie in a grassy area near their Merritt home on Sunday, March 8. On Thursday, March 12 Milo woke up and was unable to walk, but doctors were unable to discover the cause.
  A family member suggested to Jamie that he check Milo for ticks, and a search revealed an engorged
  
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• M4.0 earthquake registers off Tofino’s coast

  23-03-2026 14:19 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported off Tofino on Sunday afternoon.
  The U.S. Geological Survey reported the earthquake happened 261 kilometres west-southwest of Tofino, at a depth of 10 kilometres.
  Emergency Info B.C. posted that no injuries or damage were expected.
  No tsunami was expected from the earthquake.
  
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• Visitor unleashes power of ‘unconditional positive regard’ on B.C. residents

  23-03-2026 13:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Building bridges with strangers might be Paul Jenkinson’s super power.He starts with a physical installation and “unconditional positive regard.”Two chairs, a table and a sign with words that promise a safe space, free of judgment or shame; You are not alone – I will listen.The Nova Scotia man faced a pivotal moment when he turned 70. He could slide into invisibility, or use valuable tools honed over a lifetime while he still had the capacity.“I had a choice to quie
  
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• Piano Heist premièring new act in Nanaimo

  23-03-2026 13:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Piano Heist is back in Nanaimo for a première show, combining filmmaking and music with the duo’s zany antics.
  The 88th Key will be showing at the Port Theatre on Sunday, March 29 at 3 p.m., consisting of a 15-minute film, a 20-minute live show, and a talkback with the duo, Nico Rhodes and Patrick Courtin, culminating in an hour-long performance.
  “The act is a little like dueling pianos, but a little more collaborative than duelling,” Courtin told the News Bulletin. &ldq
  
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• Comox Hells Angels trial faces stay bid over Charter breaches

  23-03-2026 00:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Defence lawyers are seeking a stay of proceedings in a high-security trial in Victoria, alleging Charter violations during a year-long police investigation into a cocaine trafficking network in the Comox Valley and Campbell River involving alleged Hells Angels associates.
  What started in February, and will likely go into the summer, is the trial of Jeff Pasanen, Randall King and Jonathan Clifford, who face a total of 16 charges, including participating in activities of a criminal organization, c
  
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• BC Ferries cancels multiple Swartz Bay–Tsawwassen sailings

  22-03-2026 18:08 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Several ferry sailings between Victoria and Tsawwassen have been cancelled Sunday, March 22, after a mechanical problem with a vessel’s generator, according to BC Ferries.
  Cancellations for the day include the 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. sailings from Swartz Bay, as well as the 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. departures from Tsawwassen.#ServiceNotice Due to a mechanical difficulty with the vessel’s starboard generator, additional sailings between #SwartzBay – #Tsawwassen today have be
  
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• Iain Black endorsed for Conservative leadership by Vernon MP who once held the job

  22-03-2026 18:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee MP Scott Anderson has endorsed Iain Black as the candidate he’d most like to see win the B.C. Conservative Party’s leadership race.
  Anderson was the leader of the Conservatives from 2017 to 2019, when the party was on the margins of B.C. politics. The party’s next leader will take over the province’s Official Opposition.
  Black previously spoke to The Morning Star during a stop at Jitter Beans Coffee House in Lumby last month, when he described
  
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• Seats available for astronomy, estate-planning in Mid Island Elder College courses

  22-03-2026 13:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Life-long learners have access to 91 courses from Mid Island Elder College’s spring curriculum.
  In a press release, the non-profit, which offers classes at locales from Duncan to Qualicum Beach, stated it is seeking students from 55 years old and up for its “practical courses,” including the “Are you ready for emergencies and disasters” and “Understanding America: The Civil War to World War One.”
  Among notable offerings are “Fall prevention and man
  
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• VIU Mariners women’s basketball team CCAA champs, men runners-up

  22-03-2026 06:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  It was both a bitter and a sweet Saturday night for Vancouver Island University Mariners basketball teams, with the men losing their national championship game by a single point and the women capturing a national title.
  The VIU women were in Montreal for the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball championship while the men hosted nationals – both tournaments were from Wednesday to Saturday, March 18-21.
  The women defeated the Fanshawe Falcons 72-58 in the champio
  
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• VIDEO: Best-attended, most-watched All-Native tournament wraps in B.C.

  22-03-2026 04:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The big one is done.
  More than 300 games over five days, featuring 129 teams from across the province, came to a close Friday at the finals of the 50th annual Junior All Native Tournament (JANT 2026) at Langley Events Centre.
  It was the biggest Indigenous competition of its kind in B.C., the best-attended and most-watched ever, with 2,400 fans watching at Centre Court for the highest attended championship finals day in tournament history, while online, more than 373,000 cumulative viewers tuned
  
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• Buchnevich leads visiting St. Louis Blues to 3-1 win over Canucks

  22-03-2026 02:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist, lifting the visiting St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Saturday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
  Pius Suter had the other goal for the Blues (28-30-11), with Logan Mailloux adding two assists. Jordan Binnington picked up the win in goal, making 14 saves.
  Filip Hronek had the lone goal for Vancouver (21-40-8). Kevin Lankinen took the loss in net, stopping 18 shots.
  The teams battled through a low-event first period, with
  
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• No injuries after small airplane makes hard landing at B.C. airport

  22-03-2026 01:02 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Update: 5 p.m.
  There were no injuries after an airplane made an emergency landing at the Vernon Airport Saturday afternoon.
  A privately registered twin-engine plane advised that it had a mechanical issue with the aircraft’s nose landing gear around 1:30 p.m. March 21, according to City of Vernon spokesperson Jessica Hewitt.
  As a safety precaution, emergency crews were dispatched to the airport for standby.
  The aircraft had one person aboard. It landed safely at 1:48 p.m., Hewitt said.
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• Vancouver Goldeneyes fall to Minnesota Frost 3-1

  22-03-2026 00:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Vancouver Goldeneyes’ five-game homestand ended in defeat, as the team lost to the Minnesota Frost 3-1.
  Vancouver hosted the Frost Saturday (March 21) at the Pacific Coliseum in front of a crowd of 10,366 people.
  This was Minnesota’s fifth consecutive win, and they are currently tied for first place in the league with 42 points.
  The Frost’s Natalie Buchbinder opened up the scoring in the first period on a power play. Kelly Pannek and Britta Curl-Salemme also scored. Goalten
  
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• Tax hike of four to five per cent in proposed Lantzville financial plan

  21-03-2026 20:01 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The final figure is yet to come, but Lantzville council has proposed a financial plan bylaw in two readings and is putting the draft 2026 – 2023 financial to the public for feedback.
  The bylaw passed first and second reading at Lantzville council’s Wednesday, March 18, meeting.
  Property owners will face a five per cent increase to the water user and a three per cent increase to the sewer user rate.
  The general property tax increase is still not finalized, but council passed a motion
  
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• Victoria’s longest-running whale watching company closes for good

  21-03-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Victoria’s longest-running whale watching company has sailed out of the Inner Harbour for the last time.
  Five Star Whale Watching announced March 16 that it is suspending operations for good.
  “It is with a heavy heart we share the news,” owner Andrew Lees said in a social media post. “This was not an easy decision and not one taken lightly.”
  The company, which has been sailing the Salish Sea in search of whales for 41 years, cited “various unforeseen circumsta
  
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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A bad case of war fever

  21-03-2026 18:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  To the editor,
  Four days after bombs and rockets began raining onto political and military targets throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Trump hosted a press conference in the Oval Office, during his meeting with the Chancellor of Germany. The bombings came as no surprise following so much U.S. military hardware moving into the region, in the form of two aircraft carrier strike groups and more warplanes deployed at many bases around the Persian Gulf.
  The president calmly discussed h
  
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• ‘Potential risk’: Canada ends longtime Weatheradio service, leaving some forecast-less

  21-03-2026 16:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  When one Revelstoke resident and former search and rescue volunteer recently tuned into Weatheradio — a service providing daily forecasts for communities across Canada — he was surprised to find the local channel turned off.
  On Monday, March 16, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) ended Weatheradio and telephone-based Hello Weather amid federal budget cuts, leaving a hole in valuable forecasting for rural communities.
  Launched in 1976, Weatheradio played an important role ke
  
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• 6 B.C. temperature records broken on first day of spring, all in Okanagan region

  21-03-2026 15:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The heat was felt on the first day of spring as more temperature records were broken.
  On Friday, Mar. 20, six temperature records were broken in B.C., all in the Okanagan region.
  The Peach City itself, Penticton was the warmest place on Friday, reaching 22 C. That broke the 98-year Mar. 20 record of 17.8 C in 1928.
  Next was Osoyoos, where the temperature reached 21.4 C, a full degree more than the 2024 record of 20.4 C.
  Temperatures reaching 20 C broke an 111-year-old record in Salmon Arm on Fri
  
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• How a Vancouver Island winery became a destination based on experiences

  21-03-2026 15:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  After officially opening just in May of last year, Prohibition Vineyard had a successful year, to say the least.
  “We sold out of all of our wine,” says owner Ashley Rice, who owns the boutique North Saanich winery with her husband, Mark. “We were seeing 100 people a day and we were even having to turn people away, telling them to check out other wineries and come back.”
  But what made the Rice’s winery one to watch wasn’t just their notable wines. It was the fa
  
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• Noel Lewis-Watts

  21-03-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  In Loving Memory ~
  December 1, 1929 – December 8, 2025
  Noel is flying high and free. Noel passed away at home, surrounded by love, on December 8th, 2025.
  For the complete obituary please check the link below.
  Join us for Noel’s Celebration of Life on Saturday afternoon, April 11th from 2:00 ~ 4:00pm at the Unitarian Hall, 595 Townsite Road, Nanaimo.
  
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• PHOTOS: Sidney dive reveals years worth of ‘ghost gear’ tangled on the seabed

  21-03-2026 13:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Generations of residents have enjoyed the fish and crab caught from the pier in Sidney.
  A giant pile of “ghost gear” – abandoned traps, pots, lines and nets – tangling the waters and nestled into the sea bottom serves as a testament to the cut lines“What we found down there was eye opening. The seafloor beneath the pier is littered with years worth of lost and discarded traps, many of which have been there so long they’re falling apart on the bottom,” sa
  
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• Nanaimo Astronomy Society guest speaker to talk up Trans-Newtonian objects

  21-03-2026 13:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The orbits and colours of icy rocks in the far outer reaches of our solar system can help scientists understand its early formation and evolution.
  Laura Buchanan, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Victoria and Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s guest speaker for the society’s upcoming monthly meeting, is one of the people who study icy rocks known as Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), and will talk about how icy bits orbiting the solar system can provide clues to its origin and fo
  
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• End of the road: Iconic Vancouver Island jazz club to permanently close

  21-03-2026 06:16 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Two popular Victoria live music venues will be closing their doors for the last time.
  Arts On View Society announced Thursday (March 19) that it has made the decision to wind down operations and close Hermann’s Jazz Club and the View Street Social.
  The decision follows an extensive review of the organization’s financial position and reflects the society’s responsibility to “act in a financially and legally responsible manner.”
  Both will close April 30.
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• Thompson makes 30 stops in Capitals win over Devils - NanaimoNewsNOW

  21-03-2026 04:45
  Thompson makes 30 stops in Capitals win over Devils  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Federal government announces safe sport funding - NanaimoNewsNOW

  21-03-2026 03:50
  Federal government announces safe sport funding  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Pedestrian killed in crash along Hwy. 19 north of Nanaimo - NanaimoNewsNOW

  21-03-2026 03:33
  Pedestrian killed in crash along Hwy. 19 north of Nanaimo  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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