A new series of interpretive signs along the Ancient Cedars section of the Wild Pacific Trail pays tribute to the legacy Bob and Vi Mundy, the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ couple who shared priceless traditional knowledge with the west coast.

Bob passed away on May 5, 2024. Vi passed shortly after on July 31, 2024. 

“We couldn’t imagine in our family Bob without Vi or Vi without Bob. They came as a unit, and they were really beautiful to watch. They were a testament to not giving up on each other,” said Jeneva Touchie during a June 7 ribbon cutting ceremony. 

The Port Angeles Police Department has arrested Tina Marie Alcorn in connection to the 2016 murder of 65-year-old George Cecil David.

George David was a Tla-o-qui-aht master carver who lived in Neah Bay at the time of his death. On March 26, 2016 he boarded a bus in Neah Bay headed for Port Angeles. He was planning to take a ferry to Vancouver Island to attend a family funeral.

On March 28, 2016, David’s remains were discovered in the apartment of a friend who invited him to stay over. Reports say that he died from a head injury. 

– Recent reports of a pack of sea wolves in the Pacific Rim corridor acting habituated towards humans has prompted Parks Canada to issue a public reminder about how to stay safe and respect these animals. 

Francis Bruhwiler is a specialist in human-wildlife co-existence in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve (PRNPR). He says the pack is likely the same two or three coastal wolves acting “very indifferent” when they see people. 

With evacuation orders already in place in British Columbia’s northeast and the uppermost sections of Canada’s prairies, the wildfire season hit Vancouver Island June 8 with a growing incident on the side of Nahmint Mountain.

Deep in Nuu-chah-nulth territory south of Sproat Lake, the Nahmint fire was first spotted during a hot Sunday when the temperature rose to 32 Celsius. Over the following day the fire grew to over 23 hectares, sending from the mountain a cloud of smoke that’s visible from Sproat Lake. 

Representatives from a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation were able to lend a helping hand to their neighbours who dealt with a recent crisis.

Officials from the remote British Columbia community of Bamfield discovered they had a leak within their water distribution system back on the evening of May 23. The leak was fixed about 36 hours later.

But a boil water advisory remained in effect until June 2. That would be 11 days after the issue first arose. 

A release from the Bamfield Water System on June 2 confirmed the water from taps was once again safe to use.

When she is not teaching at the college, she’s primarily a jewelry creator. But when Vina Brown was given a golden opportunity to make a collection for a prestigious fashion show, she became a fashion designer. 

With an eye on ensuring safety and cutting down on disruptions to the surrounding community, the province has announced minimum standards for publicly funded overdose prevention sites across British Columbia.

Inconsistencies are emerging in the process of awarding settlements to former Indian day school students, as some have faced multiple rejections while their classmates received compensation from the class action without an issue.

Chants, cheers, laughter and screams could be heard at a secluded section of Nitinaht Lake as school children and their invited guests raced each other in Ditidaht Community School’s annual Paddle Day event.

Tina Joseph, an organizer and staff member of Ditidaht Community School, said the fun day event has been going on for 14 or 15 years, except for the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period. 

“We usually invite guests,” she told Ha-Shilth-Sa.

Chantel Moore’s daughter Gracie is 11 this year. 

“She’s growing. She often talks about her mom and how she misses her,” said Gracie’s grandmother Martha Martin on June 4, 2025, the fifth anniversary of her daughter’s fatal shooting by Edmundson City Police Force Officer Jeremy Son during a wellness check.

“She was six when her mom passed,” said Martin. “She struggled with it for a really long time. She would always ask, ‘When are the angels going to be done with my mom? Can they just send her back now?’”