A 62-year-old man has been airlifted to hospital after suffering life-threatening injuries in an assault in Nanaimo, according to RCMP.

The city's housing strategy is starting to pay off with fewer homeless loitering in the downtown core, say social service advocates. Those tackling the city's homeless problem have noticed a drop in ...

Homeless activists set up about a dozen tents in a vacant lot in Nanaimo, B.C. Thursday in a bid to pressure the city to act faster to address housing issues. Several people hung banners along a chain ...

This week’s shooting at a ­Nanaimo homeless camp next to the Millstone River — the second in three months — has renewed residents’ calls for the site to be permanently shut down. One man from the camp ...

A homeless camp in downtown Nanaimo, B.C., is seen Saturday, Sept, 22, 2018. (Credit: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press) Nanaimo, B.C.’s downtown drug experiment has failed to stabilize its overdose ...

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District says squatters that occupied Rutherford Elementary School this weekend in a protest against homelessness have significantly damaged the building. School District ...

Sixty years ago, few would have blinked at Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog’s suggestion that mentally ill people who are homeless and addicted to alcohol and drugs be institutionalized. That was what we ...

NANAIMO, B.C. — A cherished diamond ring has been returned to a woman in British Columbia, thanks to the dogged work of a homeless man on Vancouver Island. Trinda Gajek was visiting Nanaimo last week ...

Vancouver Island's health authority wants Nanaimo to do more to combat the overdose crisis in that city. Dr. Paul Hasselback, the medical health officer for central Vancouver Island, presented Nanaimo ...

The chairman of the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school board was “sickened” and “mortified” when he saw damage in a school that had been occupied by more than two dozen protesters. Steve Rae said ...

The B.C. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an application to extend an eviction deadline for Nanaimo's homeless encampment because new temporary modular housing is set to open next month in the city.

2:14 Police move in to remove school squatters in Nanaimo. Squatters who occupied a Nanaimo elementary school on Friday have been removed from the building and arrested. Nanaimo RCMP pegs the number ...