Ben Ingram

nanaimodailynews.com — On Tuesday morning, as passengers begin to arrive at the Nanaimo Airport to catch the day's first flights, young men bound for Alberta can be seen sharing goodbyes with friends, family and significant others. Hugs and 'I love yous' are exchanged in anticipation of the weeks ahead, when these couples will again be separated in the name of family-supporting wages harvested from Alberta's oil and gas sector.

Vancouver Sun — A Nanaimo woman whose daughter was brutally murdered in a Vancouver apartment in 2007 wants residents in Calgary to be aware of the killer’s day parole — approved less than five years after he was convicted and began a life sentence.

Nanaimo Daily News — Nanaimo man Aaron Harvey, 29, has been found not criminally responsible for killing his father - an act his siblings say occurred despite their warnings. Harvey appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday in relation to the Feb. 13, 2013 death of his dad Roger Harvey, 69, with whom he shared a Nanaimo apartment. The elder Harvey was killed with a knife from the kitchen. "Mr. Harvey was aware of his physical actions," said Madam Justice Mary Humphries, outlining her reasons for judgment. It was "obvious" he knew killing his father was wrong, but Harvey believed he was acting in self-defence.

Nanaimo Daily News — During a preliminary race in 1962, prior to the Player's 100 at Mosport in Toronto, a spectator watches in awe as a race-prepared Volvo 544 loses its footing in a corner and becomes airborne. The burly sedan flips end-overend and lands neatly back on its wheels with the windshield popped out. As the dust settles and the driver emerges from the wreckage, the spectator turns to a race marshal to voice his shock at what has just taken place. "'Look! It's a girl,'" the driver, Diana Carter, now 76, recalls the spectator saying.

www.nanaimodailynews.com — Racism and tragedy might have lost the legacy of pioneering First Nations soccer player Harry Manson, but they could not destroy it. Manson, who broke barriers as an indigenous soccer star during the sport's formative years in British Columbia, will be inducted into the national Soccer Hall of Fame in Vaughan, Ont. this November.

Nanaimo Daily News — The Daily News has learned that roughly 4.7 million litres of well water was discharged at the Nanoose Fire Hall during the startup phase of the new building in 2012. Staff with the Regional District of Nanaimo say an engineering firm has been hired to investigate how the fire hall's geothermal heat pumps may be used more efficiently, after the $45,000 system was found to consume on average more than 117,000 litres of well water per day.

www2.canada.com — So timeless are Canadian singer-songwriter Raffi Cavoukian's tunes for children that many of those who come to sing along at his performances aren't kids at all.

www.nanaimodailynews.com — So deep is the character Alice Cooper plays onstage that at times, it has threatened to consume him completely. As a theatrical shock-rocker, Cooper (born Vincent Furnier) created the first villain of rock and roll and showed that there was plenty of room for the "dark and creepy" in popular music.

www.nanaimodailynews.com — The sight of "loaded" nuclear missiles being shipped around Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland on an unsecured train car has turned a few heads. The authentic-looking movie props were used for Gareth Edward's reboot of the Godzilla franchise, filmed on Vancouver Island in late March.

www.nanaimodailynews.com — The King Arthur's Court residential complex in Nanaimo has become known as a hotspot for crime in the city, but behind its doors reside families and low-income tenants who fear for their lives.

www.nanaimodailynews.com — They are becoming more common in Nanaimo, but for single fathers like 34-year-old Karson Collins, who represent just over one per cent of the population, life doesn't seem to be getting any easier. Nanaimo bucked the national trend on Wednesday when data released by Statistics Canada showed the number of single parent households in this city had dropped by three per cent. While the overall figures shrunk, the amount of male parent homes had risen by 17 per cent since 2006.

www.coastreporter.net — Investigators believe a piece of safety equipment failed to operate when a Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) craft capsized in the Skookumchuck Narrows June 3, killing two Coast residents who became the first ever casualties in the volunteer service's B.C. history. After the 733 Zodiac Hurricane carrying 43-year-old Angela Nemeth and 51-year-old Beatrice Sorensen flipped in the turbulent waters, trapping them underneath, an emergency mechanism designed to right the craft was not deployed, said Raymond Mathew, a managing investigator with the Transportation Safety Board. As of June 7, investigators in Richmond were still waiting to take delivery of the craft for inspection.