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.

With voters preparing to head to the polls for the BC General Election, a Nuu-chah-nulth leader shared her thoughts on the top two candidates running for premier.

NTC President Coly-e-iis, Dr. Judith Sayers, has been involved in Nuu-chah-nulth politics for many years. A member of the Hupacasath First Nation, Sayers was elected as the president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council in September 2017 and is a long-time advocate for the promotion and protection of First Nations rights and title.

Over 70 per cent of salmon are below their long-term average, according to the recently published State of Salmon report from the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF). 

The report aims to educate and answer questions about the current conditions of salmon in B.C. and northward to the Yukon. This report comes at a time where PSF’s polls show that 85 per cent residents in British Columbia are very concerned about declining salmon stocks.

This October students got an opportunity to learn about the fragility of our environment by stepping out of the classroom and getting their feet wet in a creek.

On the morning of Oct. 8, nine students from Alberni District Secondary School’s new Land Based Learning program, Grades 9 to 12, helped biologists install a trap to capture wild salmon spawners. This trap will aid in increasing the coho numbers in the Sproat watershed.

This is the pilot year for the Land Based Learning program, led by teacher Sarah Williams and land-based worker Erin O’Hagan. 

The extremely busy walk-in clinic in Port Alberni announced that it has been forced to reduce its hours for a period of one month due to a doctor shortage. 

According to a recent post on the Mapleway (sic) Medical Center Facebook page, “from October 10, 2024 until November 12, 2024, the urgent care opening hours will be drastically reduced due to lack of medical doctors.”