Author Archives: David Wiwchar

Alberni firefighters were busy battling a blaze in Beaver Creek this morning. A small house across from the Beaver Creek Market was fully involved when fire crews arrived on scene, and every area depa...

Doug Donaldson was in Port Alberni yesterday - his first visit as Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. He met with representatives from Western Forest Product...

The new owner of the Arrowview Hotel still hopes to save the building from the wrecking ball. Ray Letourneau says he recognizes the political pressure on him to show he's doing something, but he's had...

For the past few decades, Bob Cole has fought flooding at Sproat Lake by working to improve conditions that lead to winter floods. He has worked with Catalyst to restore the winter removal of weir pla...

Port Alberni RCMP say they are continuing to investigate the circumstances around the death of a 6-year old child on Tuesday. At around 9:30 a.m. on March 13, police went to a home in Port Alberni aft...

City Council passed the 2018 budget and five-year financial plan with little fanfare or discussion on Monday Council stuck to their promised 3% annual tax increase, but the vote was by no means unanim...

Owners of the Harbourview Apartments maintain City Council was wrong to declare their building a nuisance property. Owners Martin Chambers and Randy Brown say they've scrambled over the past two weeks...

$6 million in federal funding is about to get dumped into the Alberni Valley Landfill. A separate kitchen and yard waste composting area will be built, and the district will need to determine if they ...

The notorious Harbourview Apartments will come before council on Monday as part of their nuisance property process. City staff say police were called to the 3rd avenue complex 95 times last year, and ...

A 38-year old Port Alberni man alleged to be the head of a local gang, was released from jail yesterday. David Daniel Bird pled guilty to the unlawful confinement of Lawrence Stubbs, and beating him b...