Athabasca News

The local refugee sponsorship committee will finally be welcoming the first member of their sponsored Syrian family at the Edmonton International Airport Nov. 2.

Forest venturers in the Baptiste Lake area beware: there are large cats prowling in the trees. Warren Zyla, Baptiste Lake area resident, has put up trail cameras in the Baptiste and Narrow Lake area for 10 years,.

A 45-year-old man from the Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement landed a 105-day prison sentence and a $4,990 fine for a laundry list of offences dating back to 2014. Appearing from the Edmonton Remand Centre in Boyle Provincial Court Oct.

When others prefer to take their Sunday mornings to sleep in or go to church, the Interact Club of Athabasca prefers to walk for ending polio.

With his Krieghoff K-80 Trap Special 12 Gauge, local teen Niklas Tebb was able to shoot down and snag the national sub-junior champion title this past summer where he maintained an 89.7 per cent shooting average in all three disciplines.

Two men have been charged with possession of stolen property and flight from police after being arrested in Buffalo Lake Oct. 21 while driving a vehicle stolen from the Stony Plain area.

Town of Athabasca residents voted to wipe the slate clean in the Oct. 16 municipal election.

The Village of Boyle council will be a majority new council after residents voted in three people brand-new to municipal politics Election Day Oct. 16.

Boyle School students got a taste of the cultures that live among them during Multicultural Day Oct. 18. “Lots of times they forget there’s a bigger world out there.

A 40-year-old Athabasca man who was just trying “to find help ” when he went on a crime spree downtown last December was sentenced to two years behind bars. Jordan James Prymak appeared in custody in Athabasca Provincial Court Oct.