Author Archives: David Wiwchar

With city council raising fees for bylaw infractions and burial costs, some sports groups are bracing against rumoured increases to field and facility rental charges. Paul Robertson, Executive Directo...

A Second Avenue house is scheduled for demolition before the end of the year, but it can't come soon enough for neighbours. After the owner died in January, drug addicts moved in and destroyed the hom...

The city now has a second application for a retail cannabis shop. As we first reported last week, the provincial government has applied to the city for permission to open a BC Cannabis Store at the Pa...

The electoral officer for the Alberni - Clayoquot Regional District has filed papers with the BC Supreme Court to have a judge rule on the results of the Cherry Creek and Beaufort elections. According...

The annual Salvation Army Christmas Appeal gets underway this weekend with a kickoff breakfast Saturday morning at Glenwood Center. Port Alberni Salvation Army Captain Michael Ramsay says the need is ...

Last weeks public discussion about retail cannabis will come before city council on Monday, as they look to fast-track local laws supporting marijuana sales. A report by the Bylaw Enforcement Manager ...

Dozens of people wandered through a BC Highways open house yesterday, to give their thoughts on Cathedral Grove. The old growth trees attract more than a half million visitors a year and create a traf...

Representatives from the City and Port Authority traveled to Seattle last week to meet with cruise ship giants Holland America. David McCormick from the Port Alberni Port Authority said cruise lines a...

Cherry Creek and Beaufort voters could be going to the polls again after concerns were raised about ineligible voters in the last election. There is at least one report of a Beaufort voter being given...

Conservation officers brought a bear trap into the Rec Park area after a man was knocked over by a fleeing bear yesterday morning. The incident happened at Argyle and 6th where a bear has spent the pa...