Athabasca News

Danielle Knopp focuses as she hurls the rock during the Athabasca Curling Club's annual mixed bonspiel last weekend. Local and visiting teams spent the weekend competing on the ice and enjoying themselves off of it.

An information session shed some light on the future of the Alice B. Donahue Library last Tuesday.

Accidents caused by drunk drivers continue to claim lives in Canada, and that ís not going to change until the penalties for doing so become more severe.

Athabasca County administration is standing by their decision to serve $100 tickets for noise violation to both Sammyís Pet Boarding and Second Chance Animal Rescue Society (SCARS) last month. The tickets, reported on in the Jan.

Issac Allen, 3, crowned himself king of the snowy hill during some wintry fun at Landing Trail Intermediate School last weekend. A number of kids were out to enjoy the weather of the season.

A motorcoach and an SUV collided in a fatal accident north of Boyle last Wednesday. The 31 passengers and driver aboard the bus were bound for Fort McMurray, but at 7:07 p.m.

The construction of Riverview Station in Athabasca has not been abandoned.

The annual Athabasca Christmas Bird Count was a great success this year thanks to the collaborative efforts of observers and feeders for more than 20 km around town.

Boyle RCMP responded to a call shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday of a southbound SUV that collided with a northbound passenger bus on Highway 63 approximately 20 km north of Boyle. The driver of the SUV was pronounced deceased on scene.

A chickadee is spotted hanging from a bird feeder in a property just just off of Highway 813 on the south side of the Athabasca River during the Dec. 27 Christmas Bird Count. The bird count bas been a part of the Athabasca tradition for 13 years and helps with the conservation of various species by keeping an eye on local bird populations.