Athabasca News

The Amber Valley Community Association may look into reversing their decision to purchase the land the Amber Valley Cultural Centre has sat on since the 1990s. Community association president Gil Williams was quoted in the Nov.

RCMP continue the search for 25-year-old Mandi Boucher, who was last seen Oct. 28 on the Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement and is believed to be with murder suspect Lloyd Wesley Boudreau. Cpl. Ronald Bumbry said Nov.

Town of Athabasca council is investigating a proposal to turn the town's lagoon water into a revenue stream. Swirltex, a company with a patented technology for cleaning wastewater, presented to council during their Nov.

The Town of Athabasca’s council unanimously supported an initiative to form a citizens committee that would guide council remuneration in an effort to increase transparency. Proposed by Mayor Colleen Powell during their Nov.

Athabasca County Reeve Doris Splane said she was “encouraged” after a discussion with Alberta Transportation on the new Athabasca bridge.

With a continuing trend of a declining student population, Aspen View Public Schools’ board of trustees unanimously approved its fall 2017-18 budget update during the Nov. 23 meeting.

Athabasca will be seeing a new doctor joining the ranks within the next couple of months. Dr. Leon Burger, a physician in Athabasca, said in a written response that Dr. Rohan Rossouw and his wife Gabby will move to Athabasca by the end of December.

The day before her family’s annual golf tournament, Terry Mudryk-Harbarenko is busy marking a checklist to ensure everything is ready.

The Athabasca Rapids Swim Club came home with 20 top-five finishes after their first meet of the season Nov. 4. The club sent ten members to the meet, hosted by the Penguins Swim Club and held at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton.

After five years of discussions, the Amber Valley Community Association has an agreement with the province to purchase the land the Amber Valley Cultural Centre has been on since the 1990s.