A Nanaimo man charged in an August 2016 shotgun-firing incident will not serve any jail time. Eric Gene Wesley Jr. received a conditional discharge during sentencing at provincial court in Nanaimo on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in July 2017 to careless use or storage of a firearm in an Aug. 24, 2016 incident, when he

NANAIMO — A man responsible for several armed robberies and the stabbing of a Good Samaritan will spend an additional two years behind bars. Court heard Jeffrey Brian MacDonald, 32, had a disturbing and violent past during a sentencing hearing in Provincial Court in Nanaimo on Thursday. Court heard MacDonald, originally from the Horse Lake

An inmate used a plastic knife, fork and spoon to cut a large hole in the ceiling of his jail cell, but had no prospect of actually scraping his way to freedom because of cinder-block walls, Victoria provincial court heard Friday. Jason Kilbach, an inmate at Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre, was sentenced to a