Author Archives: David Wiwchar

Motorists who pass school buses illegally could be hearing from police. Cameras have been installed on all local school buses that take high quality pictures of cars and their licence plates when the ...

Dozens of Beaver Creek residents packed the Regional District meeting yesterday, protesting the planned construction of a medical marijuana production facility. Carolyn Thibedeau presented a petition ...

Port Alberni could be the first city on the island to get a government retail cannabis shop after city council approved their application on Monday. Mayor Sharie Minions said the store will be going i...

Taxpayers will see a 2.7% increase to their property taxes this year. City Council completed cuts last night after staff found $302,000 in unspent funds from previous years. Mayor Sharie Minions says ...

A 91-year old man was sent to hospital and a 25-year old charged after a log truck spilled its load on Stamp Avenue yesterday afternoon. Witnesses said the elderly man narrowly avoided the worst of th...

Today's City Council meetings will focus on spending. The regular scheduled council meeting at 2pm will focus partially on the McLean Mill log pond dam, and the$263,000 allocated to fix it. City CAO T...

City Councils decision to pull funding from the tourist trains has created a wave of controversy locally, and throughout the island. Many have voiced disappointment that one of our main tourist attrac...

Port Alberni's interim city planner told council they have a lot of work to do this year, to set the city's path for the next few decades. Joe Calenda was brought in after long-time city planner Scott...

A man is dead and three others injured after a single vehicle crash on Highway 4 last night. Emergency responders were called to the scene at 9 pm west of Sproat Lake, in the westbound lane six kilome...

ICBC crash statistics were released yesterday, and Stamp and Roger remain Alberni's most dangerous intersection. There were 19 crashes there in 2017, compared with 12 at Johnson and Gertrude and 11 at...