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About 800 music lovers attended the 16th annual Water Valley Celtic Festival on June 21, taking in performances from more than 340 artists and enjoying fine early summer weather.

After receiving a letter from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (AESRD) outlining concerns with the proposed flood prevention berm expansion project on the Red Deer River west of Sundre, Mountain View County (MVC) will be seeki

With cattle prices at record highs, the Canadian beef industry needs to continue to work hard to maintain the good times, says Rob Smith, the CEO of the Canadian Angus Association (CAA).

Residents and visitors are being asked to stay well away from any newborn animals, and new deer in particular, that they may encounter in the region.

About a dozen horses were killed in a barn fire on a property just north of the Westcott Road and east of Rge. Rd. 10 southeast of Didsbury early on the morning of June 16.

Mountain View County councillors have given first reading to two bylaws related to the new Sundre seniors' lodge project.

Farmers are being urged to be cautious near power lines now that the growing season is fully underway. In 2013, FortisAlberta recorded 35 incidents of farm workers contacting an electrical power line.

Shell's Burnt Timber gas plant will process its last molecule of gas on June 18, 2014, after 44 years of exceptional service.

A plant pathologist for the province says he's never seen a case of stripe rust like the one found in winter wheat at an Olds cereal nursery. “This is the first report of the disease overwintering in the last decade or two.

As dozens of students throughout Chinook's Edge School Division don caps and gowns to celebrate the end of their high school careers, the schools themselves are also celebrating “all time high” graduation completion rates.