Author Archives: David Wiwchar

Drag racers are lining up, preparing to protest against a decision to put the brakes on their return to the airport. Port Alberni City Council will be receiving a request at their Monday meeting, to a...

The B-C Coroners Service says more than half of homeless people who died in 2016 were killed by accidental drug overdoses or alcohol poisoning, which is up more than a third in the years prior from 20...

The final report into the Tsunami Warning and Evacuation of January 23rd of last year has been released. Written by Dr. Ryan Reynolds of UBC's School of Community Planning, he and his students spent m...

Federal MP's have been burning the midnight oil, after the federal Conservatives launched a marathon voting session in the House of Commons last night. The procedural move being made over what they sa...

A week long crime spree has landed a 46-year old Port Alberni man in jail for 4 months. Todd Frost stole alcohol from almost every liquor store in Port Alberni between October 5th and 10th of last yea...

The man who is accused of robbing the Redford Street 7-11 and the Best Western Barclay Liquor Store last week will remain in custody. 30-year old Jared Stein was charged with robbery, disguising face ...

Courtenay - Alberni MP Gord Johns says yesterday's federal budget was very vague, and contained both good and bad decisions. Johns said people waiting for money for housing or a pharmacare plan were g...

The BC Government has embarked on a dramatic poverty reduction plan, rooted in the Alberni Valley. With one of the highest rates of poverty in the country, and a child poverty rate far above the natio...

As sunny weather brought people out into their yards, backyard burning complaints spiked, which has kept valley fire departments hopping. City of Port Alberni Deputy Fire Chief Wes Patterson said ther...

The sign in front of the Port Alberni paper mill changed yesterday, and government, company, and union representatives believe it's a positive change. Leaders gathered in front of the Crofton Mill yes...