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...

With no smoke alarms, fire alarms or fire supression system, the Port Alberni Fire Department has contracted a security company for round-the-clock firewatch at the Port Pub. Mayor Sharie Minions said...

PORT ALBERNI - City Council continues to carve down the 2024 tax increase. Pulling funds from the Community Forest Reserve, Gas Tax and Growing Communities Grant, Mayor Sharie Minions says the increas...

PORT ALBERNI - The popular Rotary Arts District banner project is coming to an end. After 14 years of raising locally painted banners up on Argyle Street lamp standards, this summer could be the last....

Mosaic is planting trees along the border of the Alberni Valley Memorial Gardens after logging up to the edge of the cemetary. Owner Barry Tuck says he was initially disappointed in the three dozen cy...

The Alberni Drug and Alcohol Prevention Society has received $1.5 million to encourage young people towards healthy lifestyles. Port Alberni was one of 10 communities to recieve funding for Foundry Ce...

Port Alberni Mayor Sharie Minions spent time trimming costs out of the 2024 budget at council's Committee of the Whole meeting last night. She asked Finance Director Andrew McGifford to find more ways...

The rift between the City and Rural Areas could kill the pool replacement project. As rural directors from Beaufort and Beaver Creek hint at possibly opting out of a new aquatic centre, Port Alberni M...

In their ongoing efforts to trim the city budget, Council is pushing back against increases to the Vancouver Island regional library. Mayor Sharie Minions says the city and regional district pay a com...

Port Alberni City Council has been debating the 2024 budget for a month now and yesterday it passed second reading but the tax increase still remains at 16.86%. Mayor Sharie Minions said there's still...