Author Archives: David Wiwchar

With the fires burning in the Interior, Port Alberni City Council has asked for a wildfire protection plan be put together. A small fire on the weekend near the Hole in the Wall was quickly extinguish...

City Council received confirmation that other island agencies are telling homeless people to head to Port Alberni. Terry Deakin from the Alberni Valley Community Stakeholders Initiative to End Homeles...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada has almost doubled their initial estimate of the sockeye run, which they now believe is around 300,000 fish. As a result they have increased the sports fishing limit to 4 f...

Wayne Coulson is hopeful a provincial NDP Government will put his firefighting crews back to work in BC. He says a rocky relationship with members of the BC Liberal's cabinet forced Coulson Aviation t...

Canada's top bureaucrat was in Port Alberni yesterday. Jody Thomas is the Deputy Minister of the Department of National Defence, overseeing more than 130,000 staff. Brought here by MP Gord Johns, he t...

Vancouver Island's hot housing market continues to heat up in the Alberni Valley. 54 homes sold last month in our region, a 15% increase over June of last year. Average sale prices increased by 19%, c...

Early sockeye numbers were blown out of the water this weekend, as what started off as a closed fishery, opened up on the weekend with surprisingly good results. Sport fishing advisory board member Bo...

City Works wants to know if any parks or public lands have knotty bits. Knot Weed is an invasive plant that is spreading quickly through the Alberni Valley. To address concerns, city staff will mark o...

The latest test fishery has shown there are more Somass River Sockeye than first estimated. Tseshaht Fisheries Manager Andy Olson said the estimate has increased by 40,000 to 210,000 fish. As a result...

Mid-Island Pacific Rim MLA Scott Fraser is finally off the opposition benches and in government. He said his work to help those living in poverty will now become easier with the NDP at the helm. Frase...