Innisfail News

Innisfail Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) is sending 40 needy people to Westerner Days in Red Deer thanks to ConocoPhillips.

Cracks are appearing in the town's resolve to relocate the dump next to the Westwood Mobile Home Park as widespread community protest spills outside the trailer court and into the community at-large.

From married man to fatherhood and now to the cusp of achieving musical greatness. Innisfail's Cole Malone has had a remarkable past few years. The former Ottawa area native came to Innisfail in 2006.

The aftermath of the tragic death of longboarder Trystan Sorensen on May 20 continues to haunt his mother Amy. "It's been almost two months, and I still have not had time to cope with the loss of my son," said Amy Sorensen, Trystan's mother.

Johnnie Bachusky and his ‘ghosts' are coming to the Innisfail Historical Village on July 16.

The long emotional battle is over for a group of Fleming Avenue residents opposed to Custom Bulk Services' controversial plan to develop a second fracking sand loading facility.

Town councilors have begun a special summer reading program at the Innisfail Library/Learning Centre to promote literacy.

On the same day police were probing the disturbing destruction of public art by spray-painting vandals, there was good news on the same front at the Innisfail Ski Hill with the launch of a new youth-orientated graffiti removal program.

Innisfail RCMP is on the hunt for at least one vandal who sprayed graffiti on a beloved piece of downtown public art.

It was a celebration like no other with more than a 1,000 citizens proudly waving the same number of iconic red and white flags. Canada Day in Innisfail on July 1 set a new attendance record.