Psst, we collected some of the best campsites near Nanaimo to help our readers get ready for this summer. Check them out here and get your reservations ready.

From lakeside hideaways to beachfront paradises and secluded forest refuges, the Cowichan Valley has a campsite for everyone.

BC Parks reservations for May long weekend open Jan. 16. The Comox Valley boasts access to many north and central-Island camping spots, but reservations go fast. https://t.co/7BB4ECuA03

The @VIUniversity women's basketball team's games this weekend against Columbia Bible College have been "postponed" by PACWEST after VIU players unanimously refused to play in support of trans athlete Harriette Mackenzie.

This week our reporter Eric Richards sat down with the president of the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society as they chart a path forward for 2025. https://t.co/kfgQdWApFn

A new year-round drop-in centre in downtown Nanaimo is slated to open in January for people who are unhoused. Reporter @MickSweetman took a look behind the political curtain to ask why it took so long and what's needed for it to be sustainable. https://t.co/QgPAOI2Cq4 #bcpoli

Bluebirds continue to make a comeback in the Cowichan Valley. Our reporter Eric Richards spoke to the group trying to bring them back. https://t.co/UNZrmIK1iV

Nanaimo reporter @MickSweetman spoke with local @cupw postal workers about why they are striking. https://t.co/paFXg0msfl #canlab

The Winter Indigenous Makers Market lifts up Indigenous artists and provides non-Indigenous people with a chance to buy authentic art. https://t.co/FxP96dr7oF

A winter market, hosted by Comox Valley for Palestine, raises more than $5k for children’s centre in Egypt https://t.co/jfkJCh4Rjx

Check out this Q&A with VIU English Professor Neil Surkan – Nanaimo's Poet Laureate! @thediscourse.

https://t.co/7G86qWXH2s Cowichan reporter Eric Richards took a closer look at a coalition charting the future of housing in the Valley.

https://t.co/stjuJb6iy8 The Discourse Comox Valley reporter @MadelineDunnett recently spoke with Shannon and Mike Farrell, owners of Shamrock Farm, who have been making creative use of their 20-acre farm since 1993.

Nanaimo reporter @micksweetman spoke with the City of Nanaimo's new poet laureate @neilsurkan about how he uses poetry to find his place in the community and how he plans to engage residents through the power of language.

From a Star Wars-themed Christmas sweater to vintage tractors and firetrucks, here’s what you may have missed at Ladysmith’s Light Up Parade.

"The deaths are on us. The system has failed, and we are all complicit if we continue to ignore it. This is a crisis, not a punishment. If we don’t change, more people will die. In hospital bathrooms. Alone. And we will have only ourselves to blame."

Deep Water Recovery executives say shipbreaking operations aren’t polluting Union Bay “I just want to be left alone to run my business,” said Robert Bohn Senior, one of Deep Water Recovery’s owners. https://t.co/Fa6N9YjWGU

Community members and organizations gathered on Friday, Nov. 15 for the semi-annual Baynes Sound/Lambert Channel Ecological forum. https://t.co/xxXxVisnhj

Shortly after a pop-up overdose prevention site was barred from setting up on Nanaimo hospital grounds, a man died from an overdose in an emergency department washroom. Now doctors are calling on @VanIslandHealth to set up a permanent OPS at the hospital. https://t.co/wdYAaLGXn0

People filled the stands at a recent @VIUMariners women’s basketball game in support of trans athlete Harriette Mackenzie. https://t.co/IwQWfVhI52