Athabasca News

Cheers and a few tears filled the Athabasca Regional Multiplex last week as over 1,000 students graduated convocated from Athabasca University.

Fire crews were divided Monday afternoon, as three fires simultaneously swept through Athabasca County. On June 8 at 5 p.m., crews were battling blazes and heavy winds in Pine Creek, Colinton and Meanook.

Deerland Equipment is shooting for September to finish the first stage of the Landing Park Development. This story started around 2013, when Brett Yakimetz and Dave Austin from Deerland bought land just east of Athabasca.

Unions representing Athabasca University (AU) staff have slammed the AU Sustainability Taskforce report released on June 1 that examined sustainability options for the university.

The Boyle spray park just came one step closer to a reality.

Aspen View Public Schools’ (AVPS) new secondary school and the Athabasca Regional Multiplex will likely be situated in a campus-style environment once the school is built.

Athabasca University (AU) will be unable to pay its debt in two years if immediate action is not taken, according to a sustainability report released June 1.

A bushfire last Tuesday near the Cornwall apartment complex is being treated as suspicious. At around 4 p.m., the Athabasca Fire Department was called to a fire that had started in tall grass and moved to the bush area.

The communities of Calling Lake and Athabasca definitely rose to the challenge of hosting around 4,000 evacuees from Wabasca early last week. At 3 p.m. May 23, a wildfire that had been threating the hamlet of Wabasca jumped a fire barrier.

More than 80 people packed the Athabasca Seniors Centre last Thursday in a show of interest for more seniors housing development in Athabasca. Seniors, community groups and municipal representatives made an appearance at the open house.