Athabasca News

Aspen View school board trustee and former Athabasca County councillor Edgar Koehler passed away suddenly Monday morning in Athabasca.

Once the tenant of Athabasca’s brick school, Family and Community Support Services (FCSS), moves into its new facility early next year, the Athabasca Regional Multiplex, which manages the old school, will lose out on $35,000 per year in rent.

Twinkling stars, a meteor shower, a thunderstorm in the distance and aurora borealis: all things two youths photographed this past weekend at Athabasca University Geophysical Observatories (AUGO II) as part of the 2013 Rotary Youth Academy “Photograp

One of three persons accused in connection with a suspected Perryvale-area theft ring appeared on Aug. 6 in Athabasca Provincial Court.

The August long weekend started out the same as any other day for Ron Piasetzki and Mackenzie Ryan at their cabin on Calling Lake. “It was a perfect morning. The water was absolutely crystal clear, calm,” Ryan recalled about the morning of Aug. 2.

Athabasca University (AU) is beginning its hunt for a new president and hopes to have the successful candidate in office by May 2014. AU Board of Governors chair Barry Walker announced Aug.

Boyle RCMP are investigating a fatal single vehicle collision. The collision occurred at 5 a.m. Aug. 9 on Township Road 634 just west of Highway 855.

A landlord-tenant dispute has led to the Boyle Food Bank being locked out of their facility, located at the corner of Railway Ave. and Fourth Street, in a building occupied by the Pure Water Oasis purified water bottling facility.

The graduation of six Grassland School students last Friday afternoon at Grassland Community Hall was a teary one. (l-r) Michelle Wolak, Taylor Walker, Tristan Tymo, Marissa Matoga, Dalton Gauthier and Becky Francis throw their mortarboards in the air.

When the Town of Athabasca built the riverfront parking lot, it anticipated a fountain being added.