The Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council’s (NTC) Disability Access Committee is hosting its annual Health-Ability Fair on Oct. 23 and 24 at the Alberni Athletic Hall.
‘Living in Balance’ is the theme for the 2024 event, which features two days of presentations and free offerings geared to improve mental, physical, emotional, spiritual and cultural wellbeing of Nuu-chah-nulth members.
He had life that he loved living, and he had a proud name. His family wanted to be the first to share it publicly at a press conference held Oct. 17, as they demanded justice for a life taken too soon.
Patrick Charleson IV, also known as He-man, was only 24 years old when he was shot to death in the Ditidaht community of Nitinaht on Sept. 28. Court records show that Derian Tate, 24, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Patrick Charleson IV. According to the family, the two men likely didn’t know one another personally.
It’s never been a better time for job seekers looking for work in the Alberni Valley, according to Bill Brown, the manager of employer services at Port Alberni’s WorkBC Centre.
On the Alberni Valley Employment Centre website, Brown says they are posting about twice the number of jobs than they were pre-pandemic: an average of 563 a month this year compared to 228 a month in 2019. These numbers include Port Alberni and west coast communities in Clayoquot Sound.
The Port Alberni RCMP are turning to the public in search of new information in the case of missing person Amber Manthorne. Included in the new information shared with the public, the RCMP confirmed that the popular Port Alberni woman’s disappearance is probably the result of foul play and that she is not likely to be found alive.
Robert Dennis Sr. is certainly one humble guy.
Despite receiving a rather prestigious award from the BC Achievement Foundation, the former longtime chief councillor of Huu-ay-aht First Nations feels awkward praise is being thrown his way.
Dennis was presented with the Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement through the foundation’s Indigenous Business Award program.
He was honoured during a ceremony held at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on Oct. 7.
The First Nations Health Authority has concluded its investigation into a cyber security incident that occurred in May, which compromised the personal information of First Nations people. On October 7 the FNHA announced that the process has begun of notifying First Nations people whose information has been impacted.
Up Mount Washington, Indigenous youth can ride through the trees or sit and throw snowballs – it’s all about having fun and being free for members of the Vancouver Island Indigenous Snowboard and Ski Team.
In order to make a living in remote, isolated Kyuquot, one has to be creative to ensure steady income through the seasons. That is what Russell Hanson, a Ka:'yu:'k't'h'/Che:k'tles7et'h' First Nations citizen, learned growing up in the tiny Houpsitas village.
Hanson is a life-long resident of the village, so remote it is only accessible by boat or float plane. Born in 1976, Hanson thinks he’s the last one to be born in the village.
“I was born on my gramma’s couch,” he shared.
Is British Columbia on the right track in its handling of the opioid crisis? Or has the province’s approach to the eight-year-old public health emergency become a “failed experiment” in harm reduction and decriminalization measures, as argued by the upstart Conservative Party of BC?
A recent tragedy in Nitinaht has highlighted the inadequacy of signage to the village, as many travelling to be with loved ones became lost in the complicated web of logging roads to the remote community on southwest Vancouver Island.