VIU Chemistry Professor Dr. Erik Krogh recently provided CHLY 101.7 FM📻 with an explanation of how carbon emissions are a key contributor to climate change. bit.ly/3UQuo2S

With their job at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, bailey macabre (ᓅᑎᓂᑐᒫᑲᐣ) has to write a lot of land acknowledgements, and this week they will be hosting a workshop to teach the value and importance behind. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Nanaimo’s Seventh Street Pump Station is getting an additional $450,000 for an early upgrade after heavy rains in November 2021 overwhelmed the system. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Paul Manly, executive director of the Naniamo Unitarian Shelter, is speaking out after a 23-year old woman named Sophia — who worked at the shelter — died from an infection after struggling to access primary care. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Indigenous Echoes, hosted by #VIU students Kimberly Baines and Jesse Scott-Bradley, is a new radio show which celebrates and encourages the revitalization of Indigenous languages. The first episode airs this Friday on CHLY 101.7 FM📻! bit.ly/49xMHhY

Nanaimo city council is putting the brakes on removing school zone speed signs that don’t comply with the provincial Motor Vehicle Act. chly.ca/local-news/202… #bcpoli

BC’s minimum wage will be increasing from $16.75 to $17.40 an hour on June 1, but advocates say it isn't enough. chly.ca/local-news/202…

On February 21, Parksville city council voted to move ahead with an application to allow the development of a non-market rental building at 1225 Franklin Gulls Road by the Parksville Lions Society. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Although the winter weather is still in the air, the Village of Cumberland is already looking forward to their annual summer concert series — and the noise it may bring. chly.ca/local-news/202…

According to a report by Third Space Planning, short term rentals in   are harming the local housing and rental markets and making life less affordable. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Nanaimo city council is asking the provincial and federal government to help preserve the unique ecosystem in Harewood Plains. chly.ca/local-news/202… #bcpoli

A new building of “micro suites” is coming to downtown Nanaimo after city council approved a development permit for a five-storey 31-unit building at 337 Robson Street. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Those planning on using trailers or RVs in the Comox Valley might have to replan where they dump their blackwater and greywater this summer. chly.ca/local-news/202…

A dam safety engineer told Nanaimo city council that there would be serious consequences if dams the city owns and maintains were to fail. chly.ca/local-news/202…

At a RDN board meeting on Tuesday, March 13, directors voted to defer a motion that would have seen a four per cent increase to curbside collection utility fees. chly.ca/local-news/202…

ICYMI: Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stopped by Nanaimo on Friday, March 8. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Utility boxes around the Town of Ladysmith area are getting a new look. chly.ca/local-news/202…

A proposal for school children to help clean up an empty lot led to a heated debate at the District of Lantzville council meeting on Wednesday, March 6. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Another local environmental group has spoken to their town council about the potential impacts of recent changes to B.C.’s Local Government Act could have on urban forests in the community. chly.ca/local-news/202…

Parksville city council voted to defer a motion that could have seen an Official Community Plan bylaw amendment to limit multi-unit developments along the Englishman River. chly.ca/local-news/202…