Innisfail News

PENHOLD - The recently introduced carbon tax may soon bring some pain to the town, says Mayor Dennis Cooper. The carbon tax was introduced in the province on Jan. 1, 2017.

INNISFAIL - Literacy is more than just books. A big part of literacy today includes technology, computers and software.

INNISFAIL - Technology was a key part of the Innisfail Library/Learning Centre's Family Literacy Festival. That technology included a live, one-hour, video teleconference from Japan during the festival on Jan. 27.

INNISFAIL - There's nothing quite like a murder mystery to add a little intrigue and humour to Valentine's Day. That's exactly what went down at the Innisfail Royal Canadian Legion on Feb.

INNISFAIL - Town council has selected the professional search firm to find a new chief administrative officer for the community. At council's regular meeting on Feb.

INNISFAIL - Canada's first and only mobile men's health clinic, The Man Van, made a recent stop in Innisfail.

INNISFAIL – The Town of Innisfail was named a Top 10 finalist and is still in the running to win the Big Valley Jamboree Small Town Saturday Night 2017 contest this spring.

INNISFAIL - Members of the Innisfail Fish and Game Association are doing their part to help out feathered friends. The local group installed 10 Delta Waterfowl Hen Houses on Napoleon Lake in Innisfail on Feb. 11. "They're for all waterfowl.

INNISFAIL - Bowden and Innisfail are alone along the Highway 2 corridor in Central Alberta to show a five-year drop in population, according to 2016 census data released Feb. 8 by Statistics Canada.

Property crime continues to spike in the region with six reports of thefts and break and enters - mainly in the rural areas - during a recent three-day period.