Author Archives: David Wiwchar

Sewer and water rates will be going up to cover the increased costs of the sewage lagoon project. Director of Engineering and Public Works Wilf Taekema said the project is 70% complete, and "there's a...

Two women were assaulted in separate attacks this past weekend, and police are seeking witnesses and dash cam or surveillance video. On Saturday between 4 and 5 a.m., a woman walking along 3rd Ave nea...

A 31-year old Port Alberni man with a chronic methamphetamine addiction, was sentenced to a year in jail yesterday for barging into a woman's home. Kyle Baader was originally charged with B&E but ...

Budget time is always a balancing act between costs and services, but this year has become particularily tense. The city is facing a 5.9% tax increase while many residents are on strike or laid-off du...

City Council held a Committee of the Whole meeting yesterday, to begin discussion around the 2020 budget and 5-year financial plan. $400,000 for upgrades to Third Avenue, $200,000 for the McLean Mill ...

A budgetary shortcut could cost the city $200,000. Sharie Minions was in her early 20's when she watched from the gallery as the city council of the day fought to cut costs in the fire department budg...

Port Alberni Mayor Sharie Minions is at the Truck Loggers convention in Vancouver along with councillor Ron Corbiel. She's talked with Premier Horgan and the Labour Minister, and had a meeting with th...

The Agricultural Land Commission has given the green light to a cannabis production facility in Beaver Creek, across the road from a drug and alcohol treatment center. The cement-based building will b...

After years of back and forth discussions and disappointments with local governments, the province has dropped the hammer on drag racers hopes of returning to the airport. ACRD CAO Doug Holmes said th...

Port Alberni city council was saluted by the United Steelworkers Union for not signing a letter from North Island councils urging provincial government involvement and binding arbitration to end the W...