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The estranged wife of an oil firm executive from Cremona, who allegedly committed a violent home invasion against his spouse, says she still loves her husband and wants to reunite with him once he gets out of jail and his alcoholism is under control.

The Friesian Horse Association of Alberta held its annual inspection at the MegaDome in Olds on Thursday.A total of 30 horses from across B.C.

Mountain View County has given first reading to a bylaw that would charge 25 cents per tonne to sand and gravel operations in the county starting Jan.

The decision to subdivide and consolidate land in Antler Hill north of Innisfail was deferred last week, with council requesting more information about the intended use of some of the land.

Municipal Area Partnership meetings should be held on a quarterly or even a biannual basis instead of every month ñ because more business can be accomplished between its members one on one, Mountain View County reeve Paddy Munro suggested at last Tue

Mountain View County will spend more than $200,000 to start construction on a berm that will extend more than four kilometres across the north bank of a new channel of the Red Deer River upstream of Sundre, council voted last week.

The provincial Progressive Conservative party is in good hands, says the outgoing premier of the province.Ed Stelmach made the statements on Wednesday during a visit to open the new Holy Trinity School in Olds.

More than 100 friends, family members and well wishers attended a benefit fundraiser on Sept. 17 for the Mountain View County family who lost their rural mobile home in a wind-aided fire earlier in the month.

The current weather in Mountain View County is making for a good harvest season, say area agriculture officials.ìThis warm, sunny weather is just perfect for harvest,î said Bill Sheehan, chair of the county's Ag Services Board.

New amendments are being brought forward to the Intermunicipal Development Plan for Red Deer County and the City of Red Deer that will slow the process of annexing land to the city.