Athabasca News

The Town of Athabasca’s council unanimously supported an initiative to form a citizens committee that would guide council remuneration in an effort to increase transparency. Proposed by Mayor Colleen Powell during their Nov.

Athabasca County Reeve Doris Splane said she was “encouraged” after a discussion with Alberta Transportation on the new Athabasca bridge.

With a continuing trend of a declining student population, Aspen View Public Schools’ board of trustees unanimously approved its fall 2017-18 budget update during the Nov. 23 meeting.

Athabasca will be seeing a new doctor joining the ranks within the next couple of months. Dr. Leon Burger, a physician in Athabasca, said in a written response that Dr. Rohan Rossouw and his wife Gabby will move to Athabasca by the end of December.

The day before her family’s annual golf tournament, Terry Mudryk-Harbarenko is busy marking a checklist to ensure everything is ready.

The Athabasca Rapids Swim Club came home with 20 top-five finishes after their first meet of the season Nov. 4. The club sent ten members to the meet, hosted by the Penguins Swim Club and held at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton.

After five years of discussions, the Amber Valley Community Association has an agreement with the province to purchase the land the Amber Valley Cultural Centre has been on since the 1990s.

Did you know humans share 35 per cent of their genome with daffodils? On Nov. 15, Athabasca University associate professor of biological anthropology Dr.

The Village of Boyle will be doing some research over the cost to do some renovations at the RV Dump Station. At their Nov.

The Town of Athabasca has received their provincial Order in Council deeming the damage to Hees Estates last summer from excessive rainfall a disaster.