Port Alberni News

Mike Westerlund, director of corporate development for Polaris Minerals, pictured with the gravel they ship from Port McNeil, B.C. to California for construction.

The Alberni Valley school district is talking about closing schools, following a predicted $2.5 million deficit for 2009-10. School District 70 superintendent Cam Pinkerton made the announcement during an operational review presentation at Tuesday's board meeting.

Earlier this year, John Zaplatynsky, the president of Burnaby-based Gardenworks, bought a miniature replica of the Olympic Inukshuk to decorate his Whistler winter getaway.

The new Oak Bay High will likely house more than just a school There's the blown electrical breakers.

A generous bouquet of baked goodies. When I was in a store waiting for baked goods, a little boy and his mother were waiting for his free cookie and he insisted that I have an orange when I didn't get a cookie.

Mounties in Port Alberni are investigating a Nanaimo connection to a smash and grab at the West Wind Beer and Wine Store in that city.

Nanaimo Anglican churches are a bright spot on the Island, having escaped the recession unlike others that could face restructuring.

Port Alberni Mayor Ken McRae puts his signature to the Community Forest Agreement between the city and province on Monday morning at city hall.

Standing in a traditional cedar canoe, torch bearer Julianne Hamilton, left, has her torch lit by Hughie Watts, right, at the Maritime Discovery Centre wharf Sunday afternoon.

A 53-year-old Port Alberni woman is dead after a car accident on Highway 19. The accident happened about 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct.

If you happen to enjoy the exquisite harmonies of a capella singing and relish the idea of listening to a good barbershop quartet, you have about 600 good reasons to mark Friday and Saturday on your calendar.

Climate change and global warming may be emerging and threatening realities, but one expert warns not to be too quick to link them to our current heat wave.

One person is dead following an accident at Cameron Lake, approximately 20 kilometres east of Port Alberni, Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday at 8pm, Kevin Annett will be talking at Tor Leisure Centre, in Glastonbury, and will be screening his feature length documentary film Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide.

A fireman battles a blaze in the rear of the house on the 4700 block Elizabeth Street Sunday afternoon.

Kwalikum Secondary School teacher Kevin Spicer runs with the Olympic torch Nov. 2 in Royston.

Fire captain Les Norden calls for more assistance to the lower floor of Phoenix House on Fifth Avenue after a fire broke out late Wednesday afternoon.

A team of scientists and marine engineers have completed the construction and installation of the world's largest and most advanced cabled ocean observatory off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

The high at the Victoria airport yesterday was 30.6 C, just shy of the 31.7 C temperatures that were reached June 29, 1995, said Environment Canada meteorologist John McIntyre.

One youth is dead and two are in hospital with injuries after a car accident on Beaver Creek and Compton Roads in Port Alberni.