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An Eagle Valley woman charged last week with two counts of uttering threats was the same woman pictured on the cover of last week's Gazette, wearing a pink T-shirt with the words “FRACK OFF CANCER.

With the provincial election just around the corner, five Innisfail-Sylvan Lake candidates have announced their intentions to run.

Richard Marz stepped down as MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills weeks before his mandate officially expired.Marz, 67, resigned the seat on Friday, March 16, ending his 15-year tenure as MLA.

A long-term study by university researchers has found that the Ya Ha Tinda elk population is in decline.

The accused charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon and failing to comply with an undertaking reserved his plea when he appeared in Didsbury provincial court on March 19.

Ten of an expected 200 students from China are four days into their commercial pilot course at Sky Wings Aviation Academy, which is expected to bring in $14 million dollars over the next five years for the Springbrook-based aviation school.

A former member of parliament for the Red Deer area said the defunct Plasco deal could be revisited in the future.“We just got to get enough people saying ‘We want it,'” said Bob Mills during a presentation to the Innisfail Rotary Club.

Wildrose candidate and Beiseker Mayor Bruce Rowe stopped by the Town of Olds council meeting on March 12 to present himself and talk about his platform.

The past reeve of Mountain View County launched a fracking awareness campaign last week, calling on his council and other municipalities to press the Alberta government to get serious about regulating the controversial practice.

Two Mountain View County people were arrested last Thursday after someone threatened to blow up a well site in the Eagle Valley area and shoot at the crew working there over concerns about water contamination from fracking.