Author Archives: David Wiwchar

RCMP investigators believe 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky and 19-year-old Kam Mcleod planned to kill more people. Police say the pair of Port Alberni teens admitted to killing three people in Northern ...

Police say 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky and 19-year old Kam McLeod admitted to killing three people in Northern British Columbia, but expressed no remorse in the videos they recorded and did not expl...

Port Alberni firefighters will be featured in an upcoming reality series called Hellfire Heroes. The eight part Discovery Channel series will feature the Port Alberni fire department along with Swift ...

People in Port Alberni are producing significantly more garbage than they should, and sending more recyclables and compost into the landfill than trash. The Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District separat...

Mayor Sharie Minions met with BC Solicitor General Mike Farnworth on Wednesday, asking for increased funding for policing in Port Alberni. According to Minions, the city pays for 80% of policing, whic...

School District Superintendant Greg Smyth says the Board of Education has not formally taken a position on the Global Climate Strike scheduled for tomorrow, but any activity involving students missing...

BC Premier John Horgan met with a delegation with serious concerns about the Bamfield Road yesterday, which they believe were factors in a tragic bus crash on the 13th. The Huu-ay-aht First Nation has...

Landfill rates are going up, keeping pace with other island facilities. Jenny Brun is the Manager of Operations at the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, and says they have seen people from outside ...

The city will be opening a public safety office in the uptown area, which will house the bylaw services department and community policing. A proposal last year to move the RCMP Community Police office...

Members of Port Alberni's city council are joining with two-thousand other municipal politicians from across B-C in Vancouver this week for the annual Union of B-C Municipalities convention. Nearly 50...