Athabasca News

Unlike last year’s blizzard that hampered the annual bird count, this year is more of a mixed bag with no clear reasons for why the numbers are what they are. The count was held Dec.

This Christmas, Boyle’s Linda Saunders decided to teach her grandson how to give by starting a campaign for the teen room at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. “I thought ‘How can I give?’ and I wanted it to be for a cancer cause.

Santa Claus showed up with a bag filled with gifts at the Smith School Christmas concert on Dec. 18, which meant a big line up of children to see the cheerful fellow.

Vandals took advantage of the holiday break to put an ugly mark on Edwin Parr Composite. The graffiti was sprayed on a van as well as the entire south wall of the school and several other walls on the west side.

The new federal riding of Lakeland has a declared candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada.

The holiday season is a time when many people deck their houses out with bright multicolored lights and other decorations. Houses - and trees - all over Athabasca sparkled in the night, like this one off of Cornwall, looking like ice palaces or gum drop houses.

No one really knew when there would be a change in leadership at the Athabasca Fire Department, but the flames of retirement were licking at the door earlier this year and they knew it was close at hand.

It was walk of epic proportions in Alberta politics as nine of the Wildrose’s 14 MLAs, including their leader, were welcomed into the Progressive Conservative fold and into government.

After councillor Tanu Tyszka-Evans presented the approved 2015 budget for the Athabasca Regional Waste Management Services Commission (ARWMSC) – complete with its increases – during last Tuesday’s town council meeting, many members of council were un

The increase wasn’t the biggest problem they had, it was the fact they felt like they were pressured and had the wool pulled over their eyes.