Bailey Seymour

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Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP Lisa Marie Barron, left, and Leah Gazan, the NDP critic for families, children and social development, hold a press conference to discuss Gazan’s bill to set the framework for guaranteed livable basic income on Thursday, Jan. 18, at Rotary Fieldhouse. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

NDP MPs raise idea of guaranteed livable income with Nanaimo residents

Lisa Marie Barron and Leah Gazan hold press conference, round-table and town hall

Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP Lisa Marie Barron, left, and Leah Gazan, the NDP critic for families, children and social development, hold a press conference to discuss Gazan’s bill to set the framework for guaranteed livable basic income on Thursday, Jan. 18, at Rotary Fieldhouse. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
The Ladysmith Maritime Society is moving out of Oyster Bay Marina, formerly known as the Ladysmith Community Marina, after the B.C. Supreme Court denied an application for an injunction to protect them from eviction. (Bailey Seymour/The Chronicle)

Court injunction denied, Ladysmith maritime society evicted from marina

Judge acknowledges society will be ‘gutted’

The Ladysmith Maritime Society is moving out of Oyster Bay Marina, formerly known as the Ladysmith Community Marina, after the B.C. Supreme Court denied an application for an injunction to protect them from eviction. (Bailey Seymour/The Chronicle)
A re-zoning application that has been in the works since 2016 from Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, was denied by area directors of the Cowichan Valley Regional District at a regular board meeting on Dec. 13. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Re-zoning for recycling business near Nanaimo Airport denied

Board votes to deny application a week after committee recommended moving it forward

A re-zoning application that has been in the works since 2016 from Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, was denied by area directors of the Cowichan Valley Regional District at a regular board meeting on Dec. 13. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
The Ladysmith Maritime Society filed on Tuesday, Nov. 28, a notice of application for a B.C. Supreme Court injunction to prevent the Town of Ladysmith from abandoning a marina lease agreement on Dec. 31. (Chronicle file photo)

Ladysmith Maritime Society trying to block marina transer in court

Group locked in dispute with the city over marina transfer to local First Nation

The Ladysmith Maritime Society filed on Tuesday, Nov. 28, a notice of application for a B.C. Supreme Court injunction to prevent the Town of Ladysmith from abandoning a marina lease agreement on Dec. 31. (Chronicle file photo)
Jason Goldsworthy, executive director of the Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, was one of three panelists speaking about the future of ocean and marine industries on the Island at the Vancouver Island Economic Summit on Wednesday, Oct 25. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Island’s aquaculture industry leaders see wave of opportunity for the sector

State of the Island Economic Summit in Nanaimo includes discussion of region’s ‘blue economy’

Jason Goldsworthy, executive director of the Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, was one of three panelists speaking about the future of ocean and marine industries on the Island at the Vancouver Island Economic Summit on Wednesday, Oct 25. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
Huard’s Haunted House in Cassidy is once again open, this year with a ‘hillbilly farm’ theme, to deliver frights to willing participants. The haunted house is open from Oct. 19-22 and Oct. 25-31. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Haunted house near Ladysmith is a Halloween scream

Huard’s Haunted House in Cassidy has been scaring visitors for 12 years

Huard’s Haunted House in Cassidy is once again open, this year with a ‘hillbilly farm’ theme, to deliver frights to willing participants. The haunted house is open from Oct. 19-22 and Oct. 25-31. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
The Heart on the Hill affordable housing building was originally planned with intentions for one-third of the units to be rented to persons with developmental disabilities, but that didn’t happen. (News Bulletin photo)

Few tenants with disabilities able to access Ladysmith affordable housing

Original vision of one-third of units for adults with developmental disabilities doesn’t materialize

The Heart on the Hill affordable housing building was originally planned with intentions for one-third of the units to be rented to persons with developmental disabilities, but that didn’t happen. (News Bulletin photo)
Stz’uminus First Nation’s Coast Salish Group envisions a ‘mini-Granville Island’ in Ladysmith harbour, part of the Ladysmith Waterfront Area Plan. (Image courtesy Coast Salish Group)

Land transfer aimed at creating ‘mini-Granville Island’ on Ladysmith waterfront

Town working to transfer property to Stz’uminus First Nation’s development arm

Stz’uminus First Nation’s Coast Salish Group envisions a ‘mini-Granville Island’ in Ladysmith harbour, part of the Ladysmith Waterfront Area Plan. (Image courtesy Coast Salish Group)
B.C. Minister of Education and Child Care Rachna Singh announces the opening of the new expansion of École Hammond Bay on Monday, Sept. 11. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Minister in Nanaimo to celebrate completion of elementary school’s expansion

École Hammond Bay has 12 new classrooms, accommodating another 295 students

B.C. Minister of Education and Child Care Rachna Singh announces the opening of the new expansion of École Hammond Bay on Monday, Sept. 11. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
Dozens of firefighters worked to put out a mulch fire at a woodlot near Ladysmith on Tuesday, Aug. 29. (Photo courtesy Bob Burgess)

Firefighters work through the night to snuff out mulch fire near Ladysmith

Firefighters spend 12 hours putting out fire on Brenton Page Road

Dozens of firefighters worked to put out a mulch fire at a woodlot near Ladysmith on Tuesday, Aug. 29. (Photo courtesy Bob Burgess)
Grant Leier, a Nanaimo-based painter who's shown his work at galleries across North America, will be the guest artist at the 25th annual Ladysmith Arts on the Avenue festival on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 26-27. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Ladysmith to hold 25th Arts on the Avenue festival

Nanaimo painter Grant Leier is this year’s featured artist

Grant Leier, a Nanaimo-based painter who's shown his work at galleries across North America, will be the guest artist at the 25th annual Ladysmith Arts on the Avenue festival on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 26-27. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
Two motorists were transported to hospital after a vehicle crossed the median on the Trans-Canada Highway in Ladysmith on Wednesday, July 26. (Duck Paterson photo)

Two air ambulances land on highway after head-on vehicle crash in Ladysmith

Two patients taken to hospital, one via helicopter

Two motorists were transported to hospital after a vehicle crossed the median on the Trans-Canada Highway in Ladysmith on Wednesday, July 26. (Duck Paterson photo)
June Francis, chairperson of the anti-racism data committee, front, and B.C. Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Sheila Malcolmson are among those calling on B.C. residents to fill out the new B.C. Demographics Survey to help curb systematic racism in government services. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

B.C. government hoping for more responses to racism survey

Survey has been delivered to 800,000 households

June Francis, chairperson of the anti-racism data committee, front, and B.C. Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Sheila Malcolmson are among those calling on B.C. residents to fill out the new B.C. Demographics Survey to help curb systematic racism in government services. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
Colin Dowler was mauled by a grizzly bear while mountain biking near Campbell River in 2019 and was narrowly saved by a blood transfusion; he’s now advocating for more blood donations this summer. (Submitted photo)

B.C. grizzly bear attack survivor calls for more blood donations

Campbell River man says a blood transfusion saved his life in 2019

Colin Dowler was mauled by a grizzly bear while mountain biking near Campbell River in 2019 and was narrowly saved by a blood transfusion; he’s now advocating for more blood donations this summer. (Submitted photo)
VIU Canada Goose Project researchers tagged and collared dozens of geese at Departure Bay Beach on Monday, July 3. The project aims to track geese whereabouts and population in the Nanaimo area. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Researchers tag Canada geese to help City of Nanaimo control bird’s population

Dozens of geese collared at Departure Bay Beach on July 3

VIU Canada Goose Project researchers tagged and collared dozens of geese at Departure Bay Beach on Monday, July 3. The project aims to track geese whereabouts and population in the Nanaimo area. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
Newcastle residents rally at Pearson Park to demand action from the government on Tuesday, June 20, after a man was shot near an encampment along the banks of Millstone River last week. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Residents rally after another shooting in Nanaimo’s Newcastle neighbourhood

Rally comes after second person shot within three months at homeless encampment

Newcastle residents rally at Pearson Park to demand action from the government on Tuesday, June 20, after a man was shot near an encampment along the banks of Millstone River last week. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
A man was sentenced to 20 months in jail for possession of child pornography and secretly recording nudity. (News Bulletin file)

Nanaimo man sentenced for collecting ‘massive’ amount of child pornography

Man had saved more than 30,000 photos and videos and had secretly recorded his partner showering

A man was sentenced to 20 months in jail for possession of child pornography and secretly recording nudity. (News Bulletin file)
A Chemainus-based comic book artist and publisher is raising funds to publish the next instalment of his Monsterella series. (Image courtesy Nevin Arnold)

Chemainus comic book artist raising money to create new anthology of horror stories

Nevin Arnold independently publishes his own and other Vancouver Island artists’ stories

A Chemainus-based comic book artist and publisher is raising funds to publish the next instalment of his Monsterella series. (Image courtesy Nevin Arnold)
Carla Qualtrough, federal minister of employment, workforce development and disability inclusion, announces $16 million in funding for programs across the country that aim to support Canadians with disabilities looking to enter the workforce. The press conference was held in Nanaimo on Thursday, June 1. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Feds funding programs to support people with disabilities joining the workforce

Federal minister of employment announces $16 million to go to six organizations across Canada

Carla Qualtrough, federal minister of employment, workforce development and disability inclusion, announces $16 million in funding for programs across the country that aim to support Canadians with disabilities looking to enter the workforce. The press conference was held in Nanaimo on Thursday, June 1. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
Nanaimo’s Shena Novotny is being featured in the second season of ‘Pets and Pickers’ on Animal Planet. (Submitted photo)

Woman from Nanaimo stars in animal hospital reality TV show

Cat sanctuary manager Shena Novotny featured on second season of Animal Planet’s Pets and Pickers

Nanaimo’s Shena Novotny is being featured in the second season of ‘Pets and Pickers’ on Animal Planet. (Submitted photo)