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As Mountain View Seniors' Housing (MVSH) pushes forward a new budget and five-year business plan that will see increases in lodge rents and service fees, it is fending off a communications blunder that announced low income seniors were losing their h

Chinook's Edge School Division does not have a no-zero policy in place, believing that putting something in policy holds the division to a certain course of action.

Mountain View County council has approved a new fire services agreement with the Town of Carstairs, an agreement the county hopes will act as a blueprint for similar agreements with other municipalities in the county.

Rugby Hall is now into the fourth week of hosting canine obedience training classes and the pups are developing well, says organizer Della Kyncl.From a full-grown Great Dane to an Australian shepherd puppy, the dogs are learning from one of the best.

Energy companies are eyeing so-called “tight oil” beneath the surface in Red Deer County now that fracturing technology has proven effective in recovering the difficult to access deposits in similar geological formations elsewhere.

Mountain View County councillors have approved a $3,000 grant for the newly-formed Dogpound Rural Crime Watch Association.

More than 50 oilfield workers took part in a daylong oil spill containment and recovery exercise on the Little Red Deer River at Westward Ho campground last week.

Enrolment projections are on target for Chinook's Edge School Division, with a total of 946 kindergarten students so far this year replacing 1,011 Grade 12 students that attended CESD schools last September.

A former Central Alberta Rural Electrification Association (CAREA) customer was voicing concern after the group removed its power poles once he switched to FortisAlberta as a power distributor.

Two confirmed cases of clubroot have been found in Red Deer County so far this year, according to Art Preachuk, agriculture fieldman for the county.“We do have two confirmed cases of clubroot in Red Deer County to date,” said Preachuk.