Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News

Woman shot by RCMP officers during call out in Port Albion; police watchdog investigating

Police called out for disturbance, medical assistance

  • May 9, 2021

Ucluelet reviews 11 applications for RVs as seasonal housing

"Housing is so essential to everyone, and an issue that cases a lot of stress to business owners."

  • May 7, 2021

Rescue attempt costs man his boat off Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Coast Guard response questioned after volunteer responder's speedboat capsizes in heavy swells

  • May 6, 2021

Two Tofino businesses up for building awards

14th annual Vancouver Island Real Estate Board Commercial Building Awards

Tofino set to make portable appliances mandatory for all beach fires

Fires to be contained within a portable, clean burning or reduced smoke appliance.

Missing and murdered Indigenous women, men and children honoured

May 5 is Red Dress Day across the country

  • May 4, 2021

Explosion of complaints prompts Tofino to consider fireworks ban

Tofino's district office considering stricter restrictions.

Nine derelict vessels to be removed from Ucluelet Inlet as part of massive $2.5M cleanup effort

Coastal Restoration Society receives $2.5 million from B.C.'s Clean Coast, Clean Waters initiative

Tofino’s Crab Apple Campground owner bewildered by tourism application

"It seems that something got lost in translation, as I never planned on offering sites to tourists."

Resorts in Tofino butt heads with district over MRDT spending

Tofino has explored the idea of using tourist tax dollars to pay for wastewater treatment facility

Ucluelet council sends Onni Group back to the drawing board

Requests to open up stalled Wyndansea lands denied

  • Apr 27, 2021

COLUMN: Tofino and Ucluelet once again ahead of the curve on plastic pollution

Surfrider Pacific Rim chapter manager applauds West Coast's polystyrene ban.

  • Apr 26, 2021

Long Beach Lodge owner apologizes after suggesting Tofino safe to travel to

Long Beach Lodge owner Tim Hackett apologizes to community and visitors

Surfrider Pacific Rim takes on plastic water bottles

Grassroots environmental nonprofit hopes to nix water bottles in Tofino and Ucluelet by spring 2022

  • Apr 22, 2021

Crab Apple residents fear losing their homes as campground’s permit running out in Tofino

Council rejects application to allow campground to operate as tourist accommodation.

Study: sea lice infestations at Tofino fish farms adds to push to remove open pens

Ahousaht First Nation asking for higher standards than what DFO requires

  • Apr 21, 2021

Ucluelet council approves the Lodge Property application

The decision changes the land use designation from Residential to Tourist Commercial

  • Apr 20, 2021

Five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations celebrate legal victory in fishing dispute

Ha'oom Fisheries Society and T'aaq-wiihak Fisheries announce "major legal victory"

Tofino and Ucluelet ban polystyrene take-out containers

Surfrider Pacific Rim chapter manager Lilly Woodbury touted the new ban as "definitely terrific news"