Athabasca News

It was time to remember the good times at the Athabasca Landing Pool during the Last Splash event March 30.

A teen will be waiting until July 3 for his sentence after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, admitting to stabbing the victim after a day of drinking and fighting.

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.