A truck carrying two people connected to a logging blockade went off a frozen road on the morning of Jan. 19 in same area where a camp has been established for those protesting against old growth harvesting.
C̕awak ʔqin Forestry, co-owned by Huu-ay-aht First Nations and Western Forests Products, was made aware of a single vehicle incident that occurred the morning of Jan. 19 at the 14.5 km mark on the Walbran Main.
January 2026 marks the 30th year that I’ve worked at Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper. I applied for the job in the summer of 1995, hoping that I would get the chance to work with the legendary Ha-Shilth-Sa Bob.
Popular, friendly and easy-going Bob Soderlund had already been working for the paper more than 20 years when I was hired. Annie Watts, his assistant, helped me navigate policy and procedures at the NTC.
My first day as a reporter for Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper was January 15, 1996. My kids were 13 and 14 at the time and I was in my early 30s.
Port Alberni RCMP are investigating after the ‘Every Child Matters’ barrier at the Orange Bridge was vandalized for the second time in a week.
Three swastikas were found spray-painted on the pillars of the bridge and the ‘Every Child Matters’ slogan was defaced with a racist slur on Jan. 21 between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
Just one week prior, on Jan. 14, the slogan was defaced with the same racist slur.
Following the official renaming of Tofino’s Mackenzie Beach back to its traditional name tinwis (pronounced ti-nu-wis) in the fall, Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation (TFN) has applied to the BC Geographical Names Office to change three additional place names: North Chesterman Beach, Kennedy Lake and Meares Island.
Tofino Mayor Dan Law and council expressed unanimous support for the name change proposals during the Jan. 20 regular council meeting.
RCMP are continuing enforcement of a B.C. Supreme Court Injunction that C̓awak ʔqin Forestry Ltd, co-owned by Huu-ay-aht First Nation, was granted to prevent logging protestors from blocking access to their work areas within the Walbran Valley.
While results are preliminary and more analysis is needed, contamination is still being detected in Muchalaht Inlet’s crabs, 26 years after the closure of the Gold River Pulp Mill.
For the second time since its unveiling, the abutment leading to the Somass river ‘Orange Bridge’ has been vandalized with a racist slur.
The Somass River bridge was a prominent landmark that many Indigenous children recall seeing on their way to Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS), which operated in Tseshaht territory for nearly 100 years.
The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC) is seeking a full time Registered Nurse to provide Community Health Nursing services to Indigenous children and families in a variety of community-based settings in Port Alberni.
The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC) is seeking a full time Registered Nurse to provide Community Health Nursing services to Indigenous children and families in a variety of community-based settings in Port Alberni.
Widower Kimball Davidson says his wife Bernice is an unsung hero.
“Her weapon was kindness and her shield was compassion,” he says.
A chronic autoimmune disease called Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC), which is unrelated to alcohol, caused Bernice’s liver to slowly deteriorate over the course of a decade. She passed away on Oct.16, 2022, at 4:15 a.m. in Vancouver General Hospital at the age of 71.