Athabasca News

Keepers of the Athabasca are set to begin a new workshop series in the Town of Athabasca on the fourth Thursday of each month from September to February at the Athabasca Native Friendship Centre.

Athabasca’s Riverfront Park was brighter than usual July 26, as the bright yellow uniforms donned by 100 volunteer firefighters from Mexico passed through town on their way to Edmonton.

Athabasca County council passed a motion to provide $1,000 in gas cards to Citizens On Patrol at their regular council meeting July 25.

A local business owner is questioning the value of surveillance cameras after a man was caught on film damaging his property while police were on scene — and they only collected the evidence a day and a half later.

FLIPS Gymnastics is heading into the old pool building on 47 Avenue after the Town of Athabasca council's approved the move. Coun.

About 60 people from all over western Canada met in Wabasca July 18-20 to learn about and discuss land, water and everything in between at the renewed annual gathering of the Keepers of the Water.

“There was just a big puddle and a bunch of mud where the dunk tank had been.

A former Athabasca resident living in Chilliwack B.C. has been missing since July 13. Upper Fraser Valley RCMP and Chilliwack Search and Rescue are looking for Ethal (Grace) Baranyk. The 86-year-old was last seen by a caregiver July 13 10:30 a.m.

Members of the Métis Nation of Alberta’s Athabasca Landing Local 2010 executive are a step closer to their vision of developing a Métis community in Athabasca County, with 100 homes and supporting services.

Roughly 30 people, mobilized by a Facebook post promoting an anti-abortion speaker, protested outside the July 11 event at St. Gabriel’s Church Hall in Athabasca.