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Aquaculture

Indigenous-owned sablefish farm proposed for Kyuquot Sound

Tiicma Fisheries Inc., a venture of Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k:tles7et’h’ First Nations (KCFN), is in…

Residential schools

Reconciliation march walks away from former residential school site

On Sept. 30 the annual tradition continued in Port Alberni with a march of orange through the…

Opioid crisis

Province appoints new Downtown Eastside adviser

Former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell has a new job with the NDP government as an adviser for…

Mount Underwood forest fire

Bamfield road could open at end of October, says Ministry of Transportation

The Mount Underwood Wildfire, discovered Aug. 11, raged just a few short kilometers south of…

Old Growth Stewardship

Injunction granted – Court sides with First Nations and C̕awak ʔqin Forestry

West Coast Vancouver Island – A BC Supreme Court Justice has granted an interim injunction to…

Language

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper Jeneva Touchie named Ucluelet’s Citizen of the Year

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper Jeneva Touchie (Čakʷaasiqḥw̓iłim) is Ucluelet’s 2025 Citizen of…

Whalers' Washing House

‘For some of us, it’s natural’: Yuquot celebration marks return of whalers shrine

A grey whale came to the shore of Yuquot on Aug. 2, exposing its fins above the surf as the…

Chantel Moore

Chantel Moore’s mother talks about change in policing, 5 years after her daughter’s shooting death

Chantel Moore’s daughter Gracie is 11 this year. 

“She’s growing. She often talks…

Clam gardens

Building the road to food sovereignty, rock wall by rock wall

This is article is part of a series of stories on Nuu-chah-nulth clam gardens.…

Cameron Bluffs wildfire

Study on 2023 Highway 4 wildfire calls for safe alternate route, expecting ‘future disruptions’

The 2023 wildfire at Cameron Lake cut off Port Alberni and points west from the rest of the…

Esperanza Inlet diesel spill

Toxic chemical found in shellfish three months after fish farm diesel spill

Nearly three and a half months after roughly 7,500 litres of diesel oil seeped into the marine…

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