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After three months of construction, the $2.4-million riverbank stabilization project along the Red Deer River in Sundre has wrapped up and officials say the new work should help better protect residents and property from flooding danger.

A new Municipal Development Plan for Mountain View County could be adopted as early as next month after council gave unanimous first reading to the bylaw last week.

The Mountain View Regional Waste Commission's recycling program targeting agricultural twine will be nominated for a provincial Minister's Award for Municipal Excellence.The suggestion came earlier this month from Div. 2 Coun.

There are no major “data gaps” on the impact of logging in the Red Deer River watershed, an official from Sundre Forest Products who also chairs the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance told Mountain View County councillors at their May 9 policies and p

Mountain View County's subdivision and development appeal board has heard an appeal of an approval for the erection of a house and accessory building near an airfield in the Westcott district.The hearing opened in council chambers on Nov. 30.

Red Deer County council approved the tax rate bylaw May 8, having received no feedback from the public after first reading was passed April 24.“I think we're doing what the ratepayers are asking us to do,” said Mayor Jim Wood.

Four Chinook's Edge School Division teachers have been selected as semifinalists for Alberta's Excellence in Teaching awards that will be handed out after the May long weekend.

A 51-year-old man charged after RCMP found hundreds of marijuana plants growing on Crown land outside Sundre in June 2011 will spend the next nine months under 24-hour house arrest.

An upcoming event in Sylvan Lake is striving to attract veterans from all over Central Alberta.

These days, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Bruce Rowe is spending his time commuting to Edmonton for information sessions and Wildrose meetings.Rowe, the former Beiseker mayor, was elected on April 23 with 57 per cent of the votes.