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The Chinook’s Edge School Division issued the following release Wednesday: The work underway in schools across Chinook’s Edge is continuing to create an upward trend in several measures, according to the recently-released Accountability Pillar report

Representing 69 rural municipalities, the Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) association has released the following comments on the 2019-20 provincial budget: “The RMA recognizes the importance of fiscal prudence in these challenging economic time

The result of the Oct.

A bill to establish a legal framework making radon testing mandatory in certain cases continues to collect dust on the shelf.

Olds & District Chamber of Commerce president Mark Johnson understands and sympathizes with Albertans who support "wexit," the idea of Alberta separating from the rest of Canada, but he says that's just not practical.

As of Friday, Angela White, president of the Students' Association of Olds College, did not know for sure how much tuition could rise at that facility in the wake of the Oct. 24 provincial budget.

Olds & District Chamber of Commerce president Mark Johnson says the provincial government's budget, released Thursday, is not as harsh as it could have been, and he believes it's short-term pain for long-term gain.

Bruce Beattie has been re-elected by his fellow Mountain View County councillors to serve as the municipality’s reeve for another year. The election came during the county’s annual organizational meeting in council chambers on Oct. 23. Counc.

The Mountain View County municipal planning commission has OK’d a development permit for an existing riding arena and for a proposed second riding arena on a rural property in the Dogpound rural neighbourhood in Division 1.