Author Archives: David Wiwchar

City Council will take another run at budget later this month, hoping to stick as close to the promised 3% tax increase as possible. Councillor Sharie Minions said last week's budget priorities discus...

Big trees, beer and chocolates have put Port Alberni on a pedestal for travelling millenials according to expedia.ca The travel website conducted a survey of people aged 18 to 34, and called Port Albe...

British Columbia's police watchdog has cleared Port Alberni RCMP of any wrongdoing after an 18-year-old woman died while in custody in June 2016. The Independent Investigations Office said Jocelyn Geo...

Mayor Mike Ruttan and members of the Coulson Group are heading to Ottawa today. A government business panel has invited the Coulson Group to talk about removing red-tape and hurdles that interfere wit...

A 2 1/2 hour budget meeting was all for naught last night after city council refused to support the budget that they had collectively created. Councillors voted in favour of projects they wanted to ad...

Being the largest part of the municipal budget, policing is under the microscope again. With 34 officers, each taxpayer pays a minimum of $430 a year into the local RCMP's $7 million budget, which rep...

Port Alberni taxpayers pay the most in the province for policing, yet we have one of the highest crime rates. Mayor Mike Ruttan says the city needs help from other levels of government to put more mon...

Big praise for McLean Mill after a city budget meeting last night. Society Board Chair Bill Collette submitted separate requests for operations, insurance and a capital fund totaling $356,000 which is...

A special meeting of council will be held tonight. Called an e-town meeting, it will be like a normal meeting of council, except they will take questions from the public posted on the city's facebook ...

A former city supervisor was given an absolute discharge after pleading guilty to stealing from the multiplex. Steve Bilodeau told the court he was "deeply sorry" for taking $2070 from the multiplex s...