Local News

A new community centre for Springbrook is looking less likely after a feasibility study was conducted on the project.An open house was held in Springbrook on Jan.

After finding a Mountain View County property on which to build an animal shelter, the deal to purchase the property in the Didsbury area has been withdrawn by the seller, leaving the Wild Rose Humane Society scrambling to come up with Plan B.

A 42-year-old man who punched another man in the face during a confrontation in an Olds hotel room in October has been jailed.The accused was tried in Didsbury provincial court before Judge Les Grieve on Thursday on a charge of assault.

Alberta Transportation has dropped the Olds overpass project from its three-year budget, AT officials confirmed last week.ìIt's been pulled, deferred from the three-year program.

A local food truck owner has placed second in the top five of fan favourites in a recent video contest that was held by the Food Network.

People from at least four rural Alberta counties packed the Harmattan Community Hall last week to find acceptable ways for oil and gas well fracking to occur in the West Central Alberta area, as opposed to finding ways to stop it.

Mountain View and Red Deer counties have just experienced their driest 180-day period in more than a half-century.

The Chinook's Edge School Division decided at its board meeting last Wednesday to sign a letter of intent with the Commodity Purchasing Program to explore the option of purchasing wind power from it at some point in the future.

Beiseker's pricey water woes are causing frustration for village council and residents.

A provincial advisory body on the Red Deer River watershed appears to be no more than a “propaganda machine” for industry, Mountain View County councillor Paddy Munro charged last week.