Similar pop-up sites have been set up outside Nanaimo and Victoria hospitals by a group of Vancouver Island addictions ...

Smoking logs, medication, and 'smoking weird' are all strategies for quitting smoking or vaping recommended by Dr. Derek Poteryko, Island Health's medical director of community health.

January 19-25 is National Non-Smoking Week, with Jan. 22 representing 'Weedless Wednesday,' a day when different health ...

A B.C. woman who has been making headlines for decades as a self-styled "childbirth activist" is under police investigation over the death of an infant who died days after being rushed to Nanaimo ...

RCMP investigators in Nanaimo are looking for a vehicle and its driver after it allegedly fled after striking a pedestrian.

“The vehicle heading north on Terminal Avenue appeared to have crossed the centre line, just north of the intersection and ...

The charge against 77-year-old Gloria Lemay comes almost one year to the day after the alleged victim died on Jan. 6, 2024 — ...