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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.

Plans are in motion to place a moratorium on bare first parcel subdivisions in Red Deer County.

More than 140 area residents participated in the 10th annual Hike for Hospice, which was held in Olds on May 6.The hike ended up raising more than $25,000 for the Olds and District Hospice Society.“I am in a stunned mode.

A 57-year-old woman charged after police seized more than 2,100 marijuana plants worth an estimated $2.6 million from a Sundre property last July is going to trial.

Mountain View County could face legal action if council does not allow the previously approved plans for Netook Crossing to go ahead, developers for the Highway 2/27 project warned at council's policies and priorities committee meeting last Wednesday

Mountain View County council has set Sept. 21 as the sale date on properties listed for back taxes.Fourteen properties were listed for tax sale as of May 2, corporate services director Greg Wiens told council that day at its regular meeting.

Council's plans to create an Economic Growth Corridor in Mountain View County will undermine its No.

Some interesting owls have been spotted in Mountain View County, hanging out on branches and in other locations and sporting a fluffy, snowy coat.

The combination of deer family groups moving together and grasses starting to green up along roadways makes early spring a particularly risky time for motorists when it comes to animal collisions, says Sundre-Olds Fish and Wildlife officer Adam Mirus

The Community Learning Campus Fitness Centre in Olds will be raising funds for the Wild Rose Humane Society's effort to build a shelter in Central Alberta.