Larry Sandberg said he’s no hero, but the two young men he rescued from a sinking boat might disagree.
While it may appear as business as usual in the opening weeks of a new school year, the president of the local teachers’ union said it’s anything but.
E-readers are being introduced to the Port Hardy branch of Vancouver Island Regional Library
A former Port Hardy man is looking to his North Island friends and neighbours to help him get the life-saving surgery he needs, but says he is being denied.
A small group of Malcolm Island kids are a little wiser about the ways of the sea after they participated in an inaugural sailing course hosted by a former Calgary cop.
A small group of Malcolm Island kids are a little wiser about the ways of the sea after they participated in an inaugural sailing course hosted by a former Calgary cop.
While mature students are benefitting with Elder College in Port Alice, North Island College is also looking at helping the less educated in a program that’s a B.C. first.
Getting drunks off the street is still the the No. 1 priority for RCMP, Port Hardy’s top cop told district council.
There will be no by-election to fill the seat of a politician who quit her position on Port Alice council to pursue “better opportunities” elsewhere for herself and her children.
George Foreman regained his world championship belt when he was 45-year-old.
Now, at a year older than that, local boxer and former Canadian heavyweight champ Ben Perlini’s hoping to do the same.
This town’s incumbent mayor said she will vie for another term in the upcoming November elections.
The North Island’s only funeral home has been shut down after owners failed to comply with the law, a Consumer Protection BC spokesperson told the Gazette.
When our sister city called, we answered.
PORT McNEILL — Band members picket Western Forest Products, BC Ferries and Ministry of Forests during two days of action in support of title rights
PORT HARDY—Don Orr said he had no idea his plans to build a few cabins would create such an uproar within the North Island hospitality industry.
Port Hardy Mounties check for a bear that was seen raiding the A&W garbage bins before it fled into the Rupert Street woods. The shotgun looks deadly, but was in fact filled with bear bangers, noisemakers that frighten the animals from the area.
A former Port Hardy mayor said he’s been on the sidelines long enough and will again throw his hat into the voters’ ring.
More than 20 people showed at an open house to hear the latest about the planned Cape Scott Wind Farm, the first of its kind in B.C., and learned the operation should be up and running in just more than a year.
Port McNeill’s mayor is making an impassioned plea to folks who’ve yet to complete the census — get it done.
A Port Alice mill was among nearly 50 B.C. businesses to be slapped with fines for unsafe work practices, but the company plans to appeal.
PORT ALICE—The last chance to fund a marina using grant money has vanished, but the notion is still alive, said the hamlet’s mayor.
