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Mountain View County's northern pocket gopher control program is now open to youths only. The county's agricultural service board passed a motion at its recent regularly scheduled meeting regarding the program.

Come over and play some Cards Against Humanity, someone asked me the other day. Well OK, I don't know many people in town, so why not? I'm usually for humanity, but I'm up for anything. Socializing is a strange thing.

A group of area residents in Mountain View County Division 7 northeast of Olds has made a formal request that the municipality remove the confined feeding operation (CFO) designation under the municipal development plan (MDP) on 16 quarters of land n

Whoopee, I've got my free national parks pass. Yes, I'm one of those awful people who are going to troop into as many national parks as possible in this year-long birthday bash Canada's merrily engaged upon.

The Mountain View County policies and priorities committee has been given an update on the work of the multi-stakeholder Central Alberta Economic Partnership (CAEP). The move came during the committee's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

Three weeks into the province's new carbon levy program, municipalities in the district are still trying to gauge the impacts on their respective operations, say officials.

The Alberta electoral boundaries commission will begin public hearings this week as part of its examination of the 87 ridings in the province.

MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY - The vote on the Rocky Mountain Motorsports speedway project is still some time away as council was told by planners at its regular meeting on Jan. 11 that a couple of necessary studies have not yet been completed.

Mountain View County council has approved the 2017 projects budget totalling $25.9 million. The move came by way of motion at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting. The budget is comprised of $23.

A new student concussion protocol for the entire Chinook's Edge School Division is nearing completion and should be in place soon, according to Shawn Russell, associate superintendent of corporate services.