Port Alberni News

Putting this up for the TPARC.com folks so that everyone can check out where the garage sales are.

The city could have done better dealing with demands by its single biggest taxpayer, says the city's financial task force.

A rare Vancouver Island marmot was spotted and trapped in Port Alberni, the first time one has been captured here, one official said.

Life beneath the sea is about to go live on the Internet, with the launch of the world's largest and most advanced underwater observatory off the coast of British Columbia.

Westcoaster.ca has expanded after just four years in business. On Canada Day, Wet Coast Media Ltd.

" Christina Spence Proteau of Port Alberni, B.C. shot a 2-under par 70 during today's second round to hold onto her opening-round lead with 1-under 143 in both the 2009 B.C. Women's Amateur and Mid-Amateur Championships being played at Canoe Creek Golf Course.

Pacific Rim National Park Reserve hosted Quu?aciic Naac, National Aboriginal Day, at Wickaninnish Interpretive Centre on a clear-skied, sunny Sun., June 21, just days after hosting over 300 students, teachers and chaperones for the annual school-focused Aboriginal Day event Thu., Jun 18.

Fair-skinned Meloney Waddell has never worshipped the sun, but three years ago she was diagnosed with a terminal case of skin cancer.

People who spotted a CC-115 Buffalo aircraft from 442 Search and Rescue squadron flying the skies over Port Alberni on Tuesday can rest easy: they were only doing some training flights.

While they wait with bated breath, board members from the National Institute of Disability Management and Research carry on with the many jobs they do.

Next week sees the deadline for all of us to pay our city taxes. When everybody has paid their whack, the municipal coffers will have swelled by $18.5 million - about $14 million from our major industries and $4.5 million from the rest of us.

A 47-year-old Bamfield man died in a fight with another man in Bamfield during the weekend.

Former Washington Group president Stephen Frasher has been named president of Western Forest Products, the Duncan-based forest company announced Monday.

The final agreement of the Maa-nulth treaty, signed in Port Alberni on April 9, received its first reading in Ottawa Monday and was passed through the House of Commons Tuesday.

Courtenay Little Theatre's production of "Biloxi Blues" was awarded Best Production at Theatre BC's North Island Zone Drama Festival in Port Alberni last month.

Blake Hunter has hit the largest home run of his fastpitch career. Hunter's ultimate dream was realized when he signed to play with the Vancouver Grey Sox in March.

A new book that studies the effects of European contact on coastal cultures of the Pacific Northwest will hit Nanaimo as part of one of the authors' launch tour.

Western Forest Products will close Port Alberni's Somass Mill, putting 130 people out of work with no assurance that it will reopen.

A police investigation has led to the bust of what the local chief of police is calling a very big grow op in Coombs.

Catalyst Paper has petitioned to the Supreme Court of British Columbia for judicial review of recently set property tax rates in North Cowichan, Port Alberni, Campbell River.