Athabasca News

On Saturday morning a blue Ford Mustang was heading west on Highway 55 and collided with a guardrail on Athabasca’s east hill. The car split in two, and the driver was pronounced dead on the scene. No further information has been released.

Gaige Preston and Meghan Langevin of the Athabasca U6 Crocodiles chase after the ball during the annual Athabasca Soccer Tournament last weekend.

` Boyle’s community food bank has hit the ground running after being granted registered charity status. It’s a move that newly-named general manager Michelle Bulmer hopes will streamline and improve operations of the organization.

Rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) continued in Montreal Monday, following similar walkouts last week in Winnipeg and Hamilton.

After playing host to over 1,500 Slave Lake evacuees, the Mulitplex will be ready to go for Athabasca University’s convocation this weekend.

Gabriel Verhaeghe sits behind the wheel of a fire truck during the Athabasca Fire Department's centennial open house event last weekend.

Displaced residents from Slave Lake are now able to return home and pick up the pieces they were forced to leave behind.

A clean village is a happy village. Thanks to the collaborative effort of local volunteers, council members and organizer Marilyn Meichel, Boyle’s clean-up day was a rousing and fruitful success.

A call for volunteers has been issued by government officials to help move the vast amount of donations that have flooded into the Athabasca Regional Multiplex during the Slave Lake wildfire tragedy.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach speaks to Slave Lake evacuees while visiting the temporary shelter at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex last week.