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Due to some very heavy rain and hail recently in Mountain View County, there has been some crop damage, although officials are not yet able to comment on the exact scope or offer a guess as to how the growing season will end.

Mountain View County's policies and priorities committee has passed a motion recommending council consider the adoption of a new health funding policy and related procedures in support of health-related initiatives in the district.

Mountain View County resident Norman Fritzler says construction of the new Altalink transmission line in the district has caused damage to his home.

A 59-year-old Sundre woman convicted of ordering two pit bull dogs to attack a 26-year-old Calgary woman in August 2102 will be sentenced in September.

With one tornado already seen in the district this year, West Central Alberta residents shouldn't be surprised to see more of the potentially very dangerous twisters this summer, according to David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Cana

Members of the Olds-based Wild Horses of Alberta Society (WHOAS) will be taking part in an upcoming two-day workshop in Montana regarding the possible contraceptive vaccination of free-roaming horses in the Sundre area, say officials.

Mountain View County council has been given an update on the wastewater pipeline project now underway between Olds and Red Deer.

A 55-year-old Kamloops, B.C., man was issued a careless driving ticket after he allegedly caused a four-vehicle crash on Highway 2 south of Bowden on June 30.

A 56-year-old man was transported by STARS air ambulance to the Calgary Foothills Hospital with back and other non-life threatening injuries following a quad rollover 80 kilometres west of Sundre on Thursday afternoon.

Chinook's Edge School Division is giving its high school students a head start on their careers with three new partnerships that will provide them with work experience. “It's always a struggle to say, what do you want to be when you grow up.