Athabasca News

The first concept designs for Athabasca’s new secondary school don’t seem to be quite what people expected. In particular, the general belief was that the new school would be attached to the Athabasca Regional Multiplex.

As of Monday afternoon, around 180 people have registered at the emergency reception area in the Athabasca Regional Multiplex after fleeing the Wabasca wildfires last night. The number is expected to grow as the days go on.

Hundreds of evacuees from the Wabasca area have made their way to reception centres in Calling Lake and Athabasca.

A lengthy career providing protection and serving the public will come to an end later this summer for a well-known RCMP officer in Athabasca. Staff Sgt.

It was a slam-dunk for the Boyle School drama class for their performance of a basketball comedy at the Alberta High School One-Act Play festival in Red Deer last week.

Although there was an increase in the capital budget, Athabasca town council has decided to hold the line on taxes this year.

A trip to school for students will no longer be free come September. Aspen View Public Schools (AVPS) trustees approved a transportation fee schedule during their regular board meeting last Thursday, which was held at Smith School.

For the fourth year in a row, Grade 9 students from the Boyle and Grassland schools got up close and personal with just what can happen when a driver makes the wrong choices.

There were tears shed for endings and for new beginnings as incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Jeff Johnson lost his seat after seven years to NDP Colin Piquette Tuesday night.

The final result wasn't what he wanted to see, though it didn't come as a shock.