Local News

When David Chiu was almost shaken out of the washroom Monday afternoon, he knew right away what had happened.

Susan Kruzel was cycling back to work from her lunch break in September when a driver flung open her car door, knocking Kruzel off the bike and onto the street.

The morning chill is lingering in the downtown park as 75-year-old Gwyn Rees carefully balances a cup of coffee on his walker and accepts a cheese sandwich and doughnut to help sop up the sherry he will sip for the rest of the day.

The boys of summer don’t simmer in the capital.

The final day of the Oak Bay Tea Party will serve up entertainment on the water, in the sky and on land, says festival chairman Bill Murphy-Dyson.

Traffic was temporarily blocked on Cloverdale Avenue in Saanich early Sunday evening as fightfighters put out a bedroom fire in a two-storey house. The two residents who rent the wood-framed house, a man and a woman, are both safe.

PORT ALBERNI — The Catalyst Paper mill in Port Alberni has been through some rough times in the past few years. But as it recovers from its financial woes, a looming labour shortage could be the next large hurdle it has to clear.

NANAIMO — A vacant lot off Rosstown Road was the site of an unexplained explosion last week, raising concerns among residents and the RCMP.

A young couple has been reunited with their lost dog, after finding it advertised online and contacting police. Two Saanich residents who tried to sell the dog, meanwhile, were arrested Sunday.

Nanaimo firefighters are investigating an early-morning house fire that left nine people without a home early Sunday. The two-storey, three-suite residence is “uninhabitable,” according to firefighters.