Athabasca News

Upwards of 220 students from Aspen View Public School Division headed out to Skeleton Lake March 12 to take part in the annual ice fishing trip. Students from Edwin Parr Composite School, Thorhild Central School, H. A.

Grade 8-9 students at Rochester School got to rub shoulders with a professional athlete while making a good hearty lunch Mar. 1 as they made sausages with Edmonton Eskimo defensive lineman David Beard.

Council members at Athabasca County approved a 10-per-cent pay increase at their regular council meeting Feb. 28.

Schools in Athabasca donned their pink attire Feb. 27 to mark Pink Shirt Day, doing their part to raise awareness and to help prevent bullying.

A total of 16 participants gathered at the Athabasca Train Station Feb. 12 for the Athabasca Renewable Energy Co-Op's session on biomass energy production — the burning of plant and animal waste materials. Presented by Biomass Energy Techniques Inc.

North central Alberta’s cocaine supply has been stemmed after an RCMP bust Feb. 8-9 that netted Slave Lake’s single largest drug seizure.

A defunct oil well that appears to be Alberta’s first has sprung a methane leak in the Town of Athabasca, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator.

Athabasca RCMP are investigating the broad daylight robbery of the Grand River Saloon, where a man allegedly tried to intervene and was threatened with bear spray. According to an RCMP press release, police responded to the incident at 4:04 p.m.

A water main break was discovered between 42nd and 43rd Street on the Town of Athabasca’s East Hill Feb. 5 at about 10 a.m. In his report to the Town of Athabasca council Feb.

Athabasca University professor Martin Connors is inviting star gazers and space aficionados to the 7 p.m.