Innisfail News

The 2014 season has been over at Discovery Wildlife Park since the end of the Thanksgiving long weekend but the zoo is rejoicing with a glorious aftermath. Discovery Wildlife Park was awarded a Travel Alberta Alto Award on Oct.

More than 20 individuals from Innisfail and area community service groups gathered at the Innisfail Library Learning Centre and food was high on the agenda for the fall 2014 programming.

It was supposed to be just another caucus meeting just off the Hall of Honour in the House of Commons for Earl Dreeshen and other members of the Conservative Party of Canada. But just before 10 a.m. on Oct.

The Town of Innisfail has formally recognized the tragedy and heroism from this week's deadly gunman attack in Ottawa and the deliberate hit and run killing two days earlier of a Canadian soldier in Saint-Jean-sur –Richelieu, south of Montreal.

Local Members of Parliament are safe, according to spokesmen for their offices as reports swirl of at least one – and possibly several -- gunmen on the loose in Ottawa.

The town is looking for a new full-time fire chief. On Oct. 8, Dan Ross, who was Innisfail's fire chief for the past eight months, and the town “parted ways”, said Helen Dietz, the town's chief administrative officer.

Innisfail's Shoppers Drug Mart will close Oct. 19 and reopen as an I.D.A Pharmacy two days later, on Oct. 21. The new location in the Henday Mall will be I.D.A.

Jace Nelson may only be 12 years old but he is accomplished beyond his years with a professional recording contract and a lead role in a soon to be released animated feature. The young singer is not the only accomplished singer/actor in the family.

A desperate Central Alberta fugitive who led police, including RCMP, on a wild and dangerous chase through the region has been nabbed in Edmonton.

Town council has given the official green light for the massive Woodlands residential development to proceed. At its Oct.