In Nanaimo, students at Vancouver Island University's professional baking and pastry arts program are going for the record, fashioning a whopping 11,000-pound Nanaimo bar on Saturday. Students and ...

Go on, make your jokes. But the giant Nanaimo bar is no trifle. It’s a 500-kilogram sign of things to come. Big things are being cooked up in Western Canada — from Nanaimo to Alberta, the knives are ...

Students at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C., have been busy in the kitchen assembling the world's largest ...

Culinary and baking students at Nanaimo’s Vancouver Island University are going all out to claim a world record they feel rightfully belongs to the city. The students want to make the world’s ...

A team from Vancouver Island University established a new world record on Saturday, May 17, constructing a 1,100-pound (500 ...

A group of young Nanaimo hockey players has made their way into the record books for playing the longest indoor ball hockey game ever recorded. The 30-player team started playing Friday and finished ...

A three-day music festival in downtown Nanaimo will showcase local talent on the upcomingMay long weekend. Backyard Fest/Sunk ...

Prep work has already begun, and the university will host a community event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the ...

Weber said they looked up world records and found that the largest Nanaimo bar was made in 2020 by a chocolatier from Levack, Ont., with a 240-kilogram bar. The new record-holding bar recipe ...