The Mount Underwood Wildfire, discovered Aug. 11, raged just a few short kilometers south of Port Alberni, causing road closures, evacuation alerts, power failure and water restrictions.
Wheels are turning at Redd Fish Restoration Society (Redd Fish) as their dream to establish British Columbia’s first-ever habitat restoration interpretive centre in downtown Ucluelet, Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Territory, takes flight.
An initial call for artists at the beginning of September to create a crankie exhibit that tells the story of the Pacific salmon drew an unexpected crowd with artists from all over the globe expressing interest in the project.
West Coast Vancouver Island – A BC Supreme Court Justice has granted an interim injunction to C̕awak ʔqin Forestry Ltd. after protesters began setting up an encampment aimed at preventing the company from carrying out government-approved harvesting activities in the Walbran Valley.
C̕awak ʔqin Forestry, co-owned by Huu-ay-aht First Nation, applied for the injunction earlier this month. The matter when to the BC Supreme Court on September 9, 2025, and again on September 11 before the decision was rendered on September 12.
Hesquiaht First Nation chief Mariah Charleson is among several First Nation leaders speaking out against an application from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) to expand their business operations into B.C. coastal waters.
Hesquiaht territory is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island and encompasses the site of Canada’s historical Estevan Point Lighthouse.
As yet another protest encampment begins growing in the backroads of Pacheedaht traditional territory, First Nations are pushing back, ordering the unwelcome protestors out.
At issue is an area in the Walbran Valley that protestors say contains old growth trees that they claim are slated to be logged by forestry company Tsawak-qin Forestry Ltd. co-owned by Western Forest Products at 65 percent equity with Huu-ay-aht First Nations owning the remaining 35 per cent.
The Alberni Valley Senior Citizens Homes Society (AVSCHS) is under fire after multiple tenants of Pioneer Towers have filed for dispute resolution with the B.C. Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB).
There are currently four Pioneer Towers tenants with active filings and hearings scheduled throughout Sept. and Oct.
According to Anita Eskola, community advocate supporting the tenants of Pioneer Towers, the total amount of compensation being sought by the tenants is “substantial”.
Officials from a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation are among those who are pleased they have renewed a noteworthy Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
It was announced in mid-August that Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, the District of Tofino,
Tourism Tofino and the Tofino Chamber of Commerce have renewed an MOU first agreed upon in 2022.
The MOU reinforces the partners will collaborate and take actions to share stewardship efforts in Tla-o-qui-aht territory.
It’s a $10 taxi ride from Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront to East Hastings and Main – the epicenter of Canada’s drug poisoning crisis that is disproportionally impacting Indigenous People.
At the Aboriginal Front Door Society, kitty corner from historic Carnegie Community Centre and the heart of Downtown Eastside (DTES), hope floats as smoke from a traditional smudging lingers in the room and a team of volunteer outreach workers rallied for a weekly brown bag lunch distribution.
“Stanley gifted it to me and it’s time to go home now so his grandchildren’s grandchildren can have it,” Roy Alexander told the group of old friends over a special Aug. 20 lunch at Brown’s Socialhouse in Tofino.
Qaamina, Sam’s eldest son, accepted the chaputs (canoe) on behalf of his family in Ahousaht.
“It’s heading to Maaqtusiis,” says Qaamina. “Stanley went to Ahousaht Residential School. He was always one to give and he always wanted his grandkids to have better.”
It will now be easier for Mowachaht/Muchalaht people to reach Yuquot and other parts of their home territory, with the First Nation’s acquisition of a large passenger boat.