For a midweek standard room in July at Long Beach Lodge Resort overlooking Cox Bay: $659, plus tax.
Best Western Plus Tin Wis Resort: $649, plus tax and there’s a nightly minimum, depending on the day.
Wickaninnish Inn on North Chesterman Beach: $980, with a four-night minimum.
Oceanside suite at Pacific Sands: $699, with a three-night minimum.
For a king bed at Hotel Zed: $714, plus tax and the two-night minimum.
IslandLinkBus has cancelled their service from Tofino and Ucluelet to Port Alberni.
In a rather confusing string of emails, Islandlink says passengers riding between Tofino and Ucluelet must first go to Nanaimo’s Departure Bay Terminal, even though the bus stops in Port Alberni in front of the Casino en route to Nanaimo.
A one-way ticket from Ucluelet Junction (the pick-up spot is Ukee Poke) to Departure Bay is $75. The cost for a bus ticket from Tofino to Departure Bay is $85. It’s $45 for a ticket from Departure Bay to Port Alberni.
This Pride Month, the Coastal Queer Alliance (CQA) is calling on Clayoquot Sound’s businesses to update washroom signs to be gender-inclusive.
The CQA’s Swap the Signs Campaign is being launched in partnership with Tourism Tofino and Surfrider Pacific Rim as an effort to make the region more accessible.
“There’s [transgender] people in our community that we care about that don’t have the same access to the same things that other people do, and this is an opportunity to remedy that.” said CQA Director Sully Rogalski, who uses the pronouns they and them.
Amid a growing number of Aboriginal students earning their secondary diploma, this month Nuu-chah-nulth-aht are celebrating a generational shift towards formal education – a development that elders see as strides ahead of their residential school past.
“We’re our ancestors wildest dreams,” said Damon Rampanen, a cultural support worker at Alberni District Secondary, during a two-day celebration of graduates and scholarship winners that was held at the high school June 6 and 7.
Last year’s provincial funding for Indigenous food security has benefited several Nuu-chah-nulth nations and individuals, allowing them to build on projects and businesses that support local communities.
In a May 24, 2025 statement, MLA Josie Osborne said the funding, which comes from the province’s New Relationship Trust, helps to strengthen Indigenous food security in the Mid Island – Pacific Rim.
Children playing “Tla-o-qui-aht warriors” paddled in cardboard cutouts of dugout canoes around the wooden pirate ship play structure at Tofino’s Village Green to recount the fate of the Tonquin. The 269-ton American trade ship sank to the bottom of Clayoquot Sound in 1811 after being overwhelmed by the warriors – and blew up.
Indigenous business owner Brian Quick points to a For Sale sign across the street from his barbershop on Tofino’s Campbell Street.
The 12,389 square-foot property with a mix of commercial space below and residential units above is listed at roughly $2.4 million.
Quick sighs.
“That’s the kind of property only people with generational wealth can afford. It’s hard busting into their world,” he says.
A new study is offering the first national assessment of Canada’s kelp Forest, indicating a potential nature-based solution for the climate crisis.
A research team from the University of Victoria investigated how much carbon ocean ecosystems absorb and whether this process stores it long enough to help counter climate change. Over the last six years, scientists have increasingly focused on ecosystems like kelp forests, grasslands and wetlands as natural carbon sinks - areas that capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
A Social Justice class at Alberni District Secondary School has turned project into a lesson for the entire community. Through banners, plaques and a freshly painted orange crosswalk in front of the school, the ADSS Social Justice class in raising awareness of the legacy of Canada’s Indian residential school system, and - more importantly - is teaching future generations about acceptance.
Tin Wis Resort, a Tla-o-qui-aht owned and operated business, is getting a $1.149-million cultural makeover.
A permanent carving shed has been built on the property, new totem poles will be erected and the Wickaninnish Conference Hall is getting primed for a new roof and kitchen space – and that’s just phase one.