Athabasca News

A 45 per cent jump in the number of false alarms RCMP officers responded to in 2014 ended up the most alarming fact of the evening. Athabasca RCMP Staff Sgt.

Officers across northeastern Alberta hit the highways just before the Family Day long weekend with a focus on distracted drivers. RCMP and Integrated Traffic Unit (ITU) officers from Boyle and Athabasca took part in the blitz, which operated Feb.

Edwin Parr Composite School has wrapped up its Teens for Jeans campaign and donated around 700 pairs of jeans to the good cause.

The recent fluctuating weather has not deterred the Athabasca River Runners Snowmobile Club in preparing for their annual rally. Even having to postpone the club’s media promotional rally a few days – moving it from Feb. 6 to Feb.

If you want some input into what the new Athabasca high school, you best be quick about it.

A somewhat sympathetic crowd greeted Alberta’s finance minister to a speaking engagement at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex last Wednesday.

It was a short and not so sweet visit to Boyle by Alberta’s agriculture and rural development minister. About 30 people, some from as far away as Lac La Biche, came to the Boyle legion last Thursday to hear and speak to Verlyn Olson.

The Athabasca Heritage Society is looking for a solution to their issue with Home Hardware using their parking lot as a storage area.

After a little more than 16 months, Lewis Semashkewich has decided to step aside from his post as a school board trustee.

Athabasca’s annual musical festival will feature alternative, blues and country in 2015. The Magnificent River Rats Festival finalized its headline acts for the two-day festival at its meeting last Thursday.