Athabasca News

After establishing itself with a part-time, temporary campus in Boyle several years ago, Portage College is expanding its footprint in the community and in the business of producing trained employees for the oil and gas industry.

A local woman is in the running to win a unique contest.

Two St Albert RCMP officers are in hospital and one is in “grave” condition after a lone gunman at the Apex Casino shot them early this morning. Ths supect has since been located by RCMP after a morning long manhunt.

It was once a small, intimate collection that has quietly and quickly grown into a large village for Boyle’s mayor.

Progress is once again being made on a project that had long been considered an eyesore in Athabasca. Siding started to go up at the River View Station last month and, though work is slow, it is moving forward.

Intersections pose the single greatest risk for both pedestrians and drivers with more than half of traffic fatalities in the country occurring where roads meet.

Stunned is probably an understatement for how Travis Olson felt when he learned last month that nine Wildrose Party MLAs were packing up for a seat on the government side of the legislature.

A snowplow was one of the many vehicles that found the road conditions rather difficult to navigate early in the morning last Friday and had to be pulled from the east side ditch along Highway 827. The snow, combined with extremely cold temperatures, continued to hamper motorists over the weekend.

A drop in the number of impaired driving charges and a rise in the number vehicles that went through CheckStops in the region translates into a very successful holiday campaign for local police.

An updated, more modern logo concept has been adopted by the Aspen View Public Schools (AVPS) board of trustees.