Athabasca News

The Athabasca United Church is taking issue with how religious education is being done at Aspen View Public Schools, where they are excluded in part due to a historical split with other Athabascan churches.

A familiar face is back in the centre seat at Athabasca County, as councillors chose Coun. Larry Armfelt to become the new reeve at the Oct. 10 organizational meeting. Armfelt follows Coun.

Aspen View Public Schools’ new superintendent Neil O’Shea says he is laser-focused on student achievement and learning, while recognizing all the work that has been done in the past. In a school division news release dated Sept.

Three and a half months. That’s how long it has been since Gloria Gladue’s body was found in Manitoba. Gladue, a 44-year-old grandmother, was last seen in Wabasca Oct. 9, 2015.

Athabascans will have to go home to light their spliffs after the Town of Athabasca’s council voted to prohibit cannabis consumption in public places. At their council meeting Oct.

The family of Gloria Gladue is preparing for a preliminary hearing of a man charged with second-degree murder and offering indignity to remains in Slave Lake starting Jan. 14, 2019.

The Town of Athabasca has made an offer to purchase the riverfront Home Hardware property for $500,000, conditional on the current owner demolishing the building.

The community of Calling Lake grappled with the hamlet's crime, history and hurt at a town hall meeting organized by Athabasca RCMP Sept. 15.

Athabasca County Reeve Doris Splane has decided she will end her five years serving in the position by not allowing her name to stand for a reeve nomination at the county's Oct. 10 organizational meeting.

Calling Lake residents are expressing concern about the use of the fear and the damage being wrought to the hamlet’s reputation by a push to address rising property crime.