Innisfail News

As a the town grows tidying up official zoning becomes an important part of opening up new possibilities for development. On Aug.

Former City of Calgary parks superintendent Terry Welsh is enthralled with the chance to return to grassroots municipal development in his new management roll with the town.

Town council was considering a land-swap proposal during their Aug. 13 meeting. The swap would see the town trade some land with a local company that has fenced an area of town land bordered by Highway 54, 42A Street and 61 Avenue.

A man confessed to killing a woman whose remains were found near Innisfail during a trial in Kamloops earlier this month.

As students return from a summer spent surfing the internet and fiddling with their phones, local schools are striving to keep pace with the expanding digital world.

An Innisfail man facing charges of break and enter with intent, forcible confinement, choking to overcome resistance, assault, assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest and other offences put over his election and plea when he appeared in court in

August 18 was a day rarely, if ever, experienced by Olds Mounties. During a time span of four hours, local RCMP detachment members responded to seven crashes on the QEII. And they couldn't blame it on road conditions of the weather.

Police are looking for information from the public after a shed went up in flames on Aug. 25. “It was a shed in the back alley that was set on fire,” said John Syroid, Innisfail's fire chief. He said the damage to the shed is about $1,000.

Innisfail Golf Club members teed off for the 2012 club championship August 18 and 19 in the yearly quest for local dominance in a variety of categories. This year there were some foregone conclusions, but some surprises as well.

A Calgary law firm is “evaluating” launching a class action suit against a man accused of murder and the wealth management firm with which he was associated.