Athabasca News

If Athabasca Legion president Jackie Jonk had her way, every day would be Remembrance Day. “These people should not ever be forgotten, ” she explained.

Athabasca County has discussed selling the Old Brick School to Northern Lakes College as one option under consideration for the building’s future. At council’s Oct.

Despite the NDP’s first provincial budget containing the province’s biggest deficit in almost two decades, at $6.

Another twinned section of Highway 63 has opened up between Grassland and Fort McMurray. The 16-kilometre stretch north of Mariana Lake officially opened Oct. 19, a year ahead of schedule.

Athabasca County councillors are still upset with the abrupt way Transport Canada informed them that STARS air ambulance could no longer land at the Athabasca Healthcare Centre, unless in extreme cases. “It caught us by surprise,” Coun.

Sisters, brothers, strangers and friends braved the wind and cold to march in the Oct. 2 Sisters In Spirit walk in memory of Canada’s 1,181 missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

Athabasca Healthcare Centre received $1.5 million in upgrades and repairs from the Government of Alberta’s Infrastructure Maintenance Program (IMP).

The Athabasca RCMP Detachment will be starting up the Citizens on Patrol (COPs) program in the hope of reducing the crime rate in the area.

A pair of Town of Athabasca councillors are questioning whether Coun. Tim Verhaeghe still lives in town — a claim Verhaeghe not only denies, but says was dealt with at an open council meeting more than 12 months ago.

Drivers will think twice about speeding in Hees Estates and High School Hill after this week. Two speed trailers were posted at various locations throughout those neighbourhoods on Sept.