Alberni Valley first responders were busy over the weekend with a series of Motor Vehicle Incidents. Port Alberni firefighters were dispateched to Kilometre 36 of the Bamfield Road after a motorcyclis...

West Coast General Hospital has received money to attract and retain health care workers. The province is putting $73 million into 42 different health care areas through the Rural Recruitment and Rete...

The Tseshaht First Nation is poised to become a serious power in local land developments. The Nation is now a major developer in the city of Port Alberni after their announcement yesterday of the purc...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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. ...