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Port Alberni

Phillipine Mars to fly south
Phillipine Mars to fly south
Less than a month after announcing the upcoming departure of Hawaii Mars to the BC Aviation Museum in Victoria, Coulson Aviation announced yesterday that Phillipine Mars will also be leaving the Alber...
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Aquatic Centre debated
Regional District leaders continued their discussion of the proposed aquatic centre yesterday. The ACRD Board of Directors received the report from the Alberni Valley Aquatic Centre Advisory Committee...
Apr 25, 2024
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NTC celebrates Haida Agreement
Nuu-chah-nulth leaders are hopeful this week's signing of the Haida Title Agreement could be the beginning of further rights recognition throughout BC. Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC) president Ju...
Apr 24, 2024
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City selects sign site
A 'Welcome to Port Alberni' sign will finally be going up, a decade after the former wooden sign in front of the visitors centre was taken down. The new sign will consist of a pair of trees and the si...
Apr 23, 2024
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Alberni Aquatic Centre to cost $68 million
After a year of surveys and discussions, regional district leaders received the final report on a proposed new aquatic centre. After collating design survey results, consulting group HCMA architecture...
Apr 19, 2024
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City involved in APD lands
With the permanant closure of Western Forest Products' Alberni Pacific Division sawmill, questions are now being raised about the future of the waterfront property. Port Alberni Mayor Sharie Minions s...
Apr 18, 2024
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MP approves of budget
Courtenay - Alberni MP Gord Johns said yesterday's federal budget was good, but not good enough. He said while the Liberals failed to implement an excess profit tax on large corporations, they did ado...
Apr 17, 2024
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APD sawmill shuttered
Western Forest Products says it's indefinitely curtailing operations at its Alberni Pacific Division facility. The Vancouver-based company says the mill has been temporarily curtailed since the fall o...
Apr 17, 2024
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Tsunami Week in Alberni
Tsunami Week in Alberni
It's Tsunami Awareness Week, and few other Canadian cities have more cause to recognize the danger of tsunamis than Port Alberni. Regional District Protective Services Manager Karen Freethy says this ...
Apr 16, 2024
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Fire destroys mill building
Firefighters from throughout the Alberni Valley responded to a fire beside the Catalyst Mill yesterday afternoon. When city firefighters first arrived the small wooden building was already fully engul...
Apr 16, 2024
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Alberni leaders at AVICC
Municipal and regional district leaders from throughout Vancouver Island will be in Victoria this weekend for the annual Association of Vancouver Island & Coastal Communities Convention. The City ...
Apr 12, 2024
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Earthquake Cottage at Multiplex
An earthquake preparedness program hits Port Alberni today. The BC Earthquake Alliance will be setting up their earthquake cottage so people can feel what it's like to experience a magnitude 8 quake. ...
Apr 12, 2024
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Taxes to increase 9.29%
Taxes to increase 9.29%
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...
Apr 09, 2024
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Federal election heats up in Alberni
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...
Apr 05, 2024
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Vulnerable streetperson attacked
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...
Apr 04, 2024
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