Port Alberni taxpayers will see their taxes increase by 9.29% this year, up from the 9.16% council thought they had gotten the budget down to. The increase means an additional $215 a year to an averag...

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was in Port Alberni yesterday, speaking to workers at Coulson Aviation and Great Central Timber Milling. With the federal election still more than a year a...

A 30-year old Port Alberni man has been found guilty of sexual assault after being spotted by police on top of a streetperson on Third Avenue two years ago. It was 3:30 am on August 13, 2022 when a po...

Port Alberni RCMP have arrested a 16-year old accused of robbing a liquor store and stabbing the clerk. Creekers Liquor Store was about to close last Saturday night when video captured the culprit bru...

The BC Government will be helping prepare the Hawaii Mars for its final flight this fall. The world's largest flying boat will be a centrepiece of the BC Aviation Museum in Victoria. Tourism Minister ...

Dozens of firefighters and bystanders gathered near 4th and Burde yesterday afternoon as the Vancouver-based RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit set off a "controlled detonation" inside an apartme...

Port Alberni RCMP along with the explosives disposal unit from Vancouver are searching a Burde Street apartment today. Police raided the building yesterday morning and neighbours say multiple guns wer...

Members of the Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Society are pushing city council to help them get back on the rails. With a community-focussed business plan in hand, the group appeared bef...

Alberni's famous trains can't leave the roundhouse until two crossings are repaired. The Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Society wants to restore some form of train service, but at this p...

PORT ALBERNI - The Coastal Fire Centre received their first forest fire call of the year. A small fire was spotted Monday morning northeast of Kitsuksis Creek, and just North of Port Alberni, accordin...

The City of Port Alberni is joining with other BC municipalities in protesting the duplication of first responders services. Currently, if a medical call comes in, the municipally-funded fire departme...

The recent building boom is helping City Council carve more off this year's proposed tax increase. $535,000 in new taxation this year from new buildings has helped lower the increase to 9.16% accordin...

Port Alberni RCMP have released details of a drug bust that happened last Saturday on North Crescent, across the street from a popular playground. A dozen officers swarmed a rental property as part of...

Sproat Lake area director Penny Cote tried to stop an expansion of Sproat Lake Landing, but she was overruled by all other Alberni Valley directors. Sproat Lake Landing wants to expand their alcohol s...

City Councillor John Douglas has asked that the Regional District talk to Mosaic Forest Management about turning their newly-logged area beside the cemetary into a parking lot and trailhead for people...