Athabasca News

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.

It’s a simple little treat, really. A hint of red in the chocolate on the outside, a flourish on the top. Inside, a raspberry coulis with a white ganache. But on Oct.

The “Power of Yes” was the motto of the night at the Athabasca District Chamber of Commerce business awards gala Oct. 19.

With their hands on Bibles, the seven new Aspen Public Schools Division board trustees were sworn into their positions during the board’s organizational meeting Oct. 20. Elections were held Oct.

The final report from the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission released Oct. 19 recommends that Athabasca, Westlock, Smoky Lake, Thorhild and Barrhead counties join to form one constituency.

Edwin Parr Composite School students will transform the Nancy Appleby Theatre into a place of fairy tales come to life, in their Nov. 1-3 production of The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon.

Parents, firefighters and a local RCMP officer joined Grassland School in their Terry Fox Run-Turkey Trot Oct. 20, raising money for cancer research.

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