Athabasca News

Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government released its budget last Thursday, and although the budget projects a surplus of $1.1 billion, its detractors cite borrowing ($5.

Rolling nighttime highway closures begin tonight as an extra-wide load is transported from Lloydminster to Fort McMurray. The load will use both lanes of traffic on non-twinned highways, as well as the shoulders.

Drivers using stretches of Highway 63 in Athabasca County and beyond can expect rolling closures and delays tomorrow afternoon until 5 p.m. or so while a super-wide load completes a leg of its trip from Edmonton to Fort McMurray.

Before Plamondon-based author Charmaine Hammond penned any of her nine books, she and her husband, Chris Alcock, adopted a five-year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Toby.

Athabasca town councillor Nichole Adams believes that council has misused in-camera sessions of its regular meetings as per Municipal Government Act regulations. An in-camera session is a portion of a meeting that is closed to the public and media.

One of two men who broke into two seniors’ homes, beat them and demanded keys to their vehicles last February looked impassive as Judge J. Maher read from a victim impact statement in Boyle Provincial Court last Tuesday.

Rylan Wagner, 11, gives a demonstration at the annual Athabasca Flips Gymnastics fun meet last Saturday at the Athabasca & District Ag Society grounds. Wagner started out with Flips and now trains in St. Albert and competes provincially.

Lease agreement troubles between Colinton Lanes manager Tracy Blundon and the Colinton Community Club (CCC) have bowlers worried about the future of the facility.

An entire new world can be seen under the magnification of a microscope. Objects previously thought small appear large and full of life. Dr.

Armand Lacoursiere was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years imprisonment Feb. 19 for sexually abusing seven children beginning in the 1970s.