A 'For Sale' sign outside the Port Alberni Steelworkers Hall is an unfortunate sign of the times according to local Union President Brian Butler. He said the loss of sawmills and decline of logging ac...

PORT ALBERNI - No firm plans or budget are in place, but discussions are ongoing to improve public safety at popular Cathedral Grove. Located within 740-acre MacMillan Park, Cathedral Grove is an inte...

PORT ALBERNI - The shouting was loud, but the sound was off in parts during a Committee of the Whole meeting at Port Alberni City Hall. Speakers on Wednesday, March 17, had their microphones turned of...

A Port Alberni man has been charged with second-degree murder following a fatal shooting at a local trailer park Friday night. According to RCMP, officers were called to Jaylee Mobile Park off upper J...

The Port Authority's Dock+ facility continues to attract innovative seafood projects to Port Alberni. The latest is an oyster harvesting and processing company with an industry leading high pressure p...

The Alberni Clayoquot Regional District has launched the process towards establishing an emergency access route should the highway around Cameron Lake be closed again. Yesterday, ACRD Special Projects...

The regional rail study has been completed and released, after months of public engagement around re-purposing the rail corridor. While ideas around restoring the rail line for freight and passenger s...

School District officials faced tough questions from Regional District Directors over the ADSS Turf Field Replacement project. The School District is looking for help funding the $1 million repair tha...

The largest Canadian Coast Guard ship on the west coast will be tied up in Port Alberni for a couple of months. The 83-metre icebreaker Sir Wilfred Laurier in undergoing a refit by Canadian Maritime E...

The City of Port Alberni will be spending half-a-million dollars on a rebranding campaign over the next 10 years. 20 years ago the city invested in a rebranding campaign that resulted in "Bear Tr...

After 65 years, the Alberni SPCA is no longer taking in stray dogs and cats after the city hired a Duncan based company to do the work. SPCA Regional Manager Leon Davis said the City had provided $157...

It's been ten days since Port Alberni senior Kim Donovan went missing, and the search for him continues. Alberni Valley Rescue Squad volunteers have spent more than 500 hours searching, along with 8 o...

The city is facing the threat of a million dollars in fines after a provincial inspector found 20 problems at the sewage ponds. Some of the charges relate to the size and substance of effluent dischar...

With Spring approaching, the renewal of a consolidated Port Alberni Farmers Market remains dormant. Bringing the two farm markets back together was recently cited as something that would strengthen th...

The Pacific Rim School District is facing cutbacks over the coming years, and has already reduced expenses by $1.2 million to prepare. School District 70 Board Chair Cynthia Orr says funding is based ...