Author Archives: David Wiwchar

City Council has narrowed its focus on future bike lanes, and wants staff to study the pinch point of Stamp Avenue. Mayor and council deliberated for more than an hour and decided the bike lane should...

A new addition to the Coulson Group of Companies is being hailed as leaders of innovation and technology on a global scale. Coulson Ice Blast was recognized at the Research and Development Magazine's ...

City Council will be taking a hard look at crime today, looking at strategies to combat recent increases in criminal activity in the South Port area. The issue will be part of a Committee of the Whole...

The Port Alberni RCMP are seeking the public's assistance to help locate 70 year old David Robert Partridge, who was reported missing a week ago. Investigators have learned that David was last seen at...

A frightening early-morning hold-up has police searching for suspects. At 3:45 a.m. Tuesday, Port Alberni RCMP responded to a home invasion robbery in the 3700 block of Redford St. Three men had force...

A 45 year old Port Alberni man was found stabbed Tuesday evening in the 5100 block of Gertrude St. Police say he was found laying on the ground with a stab wound to his chest. The man was conscious an...

BC's largest-ever forests-focussed trade delegation is in Asia this week, promoting coastal wood products in China and Japan. Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations an...

City Council is looking to have two uptown buildings declared nuisance properties. Mayor Mike Ruttan had asked the Carlson Building on Argyle be declared a nuisance because of alleged drug activity, a...

The city is about to spend close to a million dollars on new garbage trucks, only six years after purchasing the last ones. The three new trucks will feature a split body for the collection of kitchen...

Highway 4 was closed for a few hours Tuesday night after a rockslide at the east end of Cameron Lake. No one was injured by the slide, which was reported as a few large boulders - one the size of an A...