Slick roads may have been a factor in a fatal head-on collision that took place on a windy section of Cameron Lake, on Highway 4 east of Port Alberni late Sunday night.
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Monday, September 9, 2019
The Alberni District Fall Fair came to a close on Sunday, Sept. 8, after four days of activity that attracted locals and visitors from communities across Vancouver Island’s west coast communities.
Friday, September 6, 2019
Summer is over; the kids are back to school and the salmon are returning home to spawn. For many Nuu-chah-nulth-aht late summer means home-use fish deliveries from their respective First Nations.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Those living in the territories of northern Nuu-chah-nulth nations might notice a low-flying helicopter with a peculiar T-shaped device this month.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
At the base of the many massive west coast mountains, in the traditional lands of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations, around 25 tents were set up in the fields behind the band office for the very first...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Worksafe BC and several other agencies are investigating after a commercial fisherman in his early 60s drowned during a commercial gillnet fishery opening on Sept. 4 in the Alberni Inlet.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
DFO scientists are drawing a direct line between climate change and fish population decline in what is shaping up to be one of the worst years on record for wild salmon.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Salmon are swimming through the Big Bar Slide in steady numbers, a hopeful sign months after fish passage was blocked during migration to Interior spawning grounds.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
What started as a conversation around a kitchen table between friends, has evolved into a successful advocacy campaign for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
It’s considered a major step in the right direction.
But Tyson Atleo, the community economic development lead for the Ahousaht First Nation, believes more co-operation is still required.
Friday, August 30, 2019
A recent coordinated search of Bartlett Island has turned up no sign of Ahousaht’s Travis Thomas, who was last seen on the island Aug. 7, 2018.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Tuesday night at the Bill Reid Gallery in downtown Vancouver marked a special occasion for many of B.C.’s First Nations, including a few specific Nuu-Chah-Nulth communities.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
A century and a half after they were carved into a cedar tree, the knife marks are still visible at the end of a post that once supported a longhouse on the southern edge of Barkley Sound.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Representatives of the fish farming industry say they’ve got sea lice under control at Clayoquot Sound salmon farms after the parasites spiked at three operations in 2018 and researchers found a similar...
Friday, August 23, 2019
Ahousaht Search and Rescue is planning an exhaustive search of the small, rugged Bartlett Island and surrounding islets for the week of Aug. 26 to 29.
Friday, August 23, 2019
The Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary has hired its first zone coordinator to be based in Ahousaht.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Day school survivors should be preparing claim forms soon through a long-awaited class action settlement with awards ranging from $10,000 to $200,000.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Only about a month after he was told he had end-of-life liver disease, Nuu-cha-nulth man David Dennis is settling into a hospice in Vancouver as he waits to find out if he'll be put on the waiting list for...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Over its 78 years of operation in Tseshaht territory, a number of students at the Alberni Indian Residential School never made it back home. These countless tragedies have left an unsettled presence that...
Monday, August 19, 2019
Recent changes to the application process for the Secure Certificate of Indian Status (SCIS) has eliminated the need for commercial photo labs.
A new app called SCIS Photo App allows the applicant to...
Monday, August 19, 2019
A lengthy struggle is over.
And though she’s been battling for this day for 13 years, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council President Judith Sayers prefers to look forward instead of back.
Friday, August 16, 2019
The boats of five Nuu-chah-nulth nations won’t be able to catch many more of the suuhaa currently passing through their territorial waters, after Federal Court dismissed an application to reverse a decision...
Friday, August 16, 2019
A scientific expedition led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) in partnership with the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC) set out this July to investigate Explorer Seamount, an underwater volcano 250...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s number of on-reserve homes has more than doubled over the last decade to 170 – but this has not been enough to keep up with a severe housing shortage.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The direction of this year’s meagre chinook salmon fishery could change this week if Federal Court grants an injunction on behalf of five First Nations on the west Coast of Vancouver Island.
