Athabasca News

Athabasca Town Council’s recent decision to restrict bus parking at the riverfront lot has been reversed.

Debbie Muir and Mark Tewksbury were the special guests at the 2012 Rotary Sportsmans Dinner last Friday.

Most Athabasca County ratepayers will face an increase in property taxes this year. County council passed the 2012 taxation bylaw at their meeting last Thursday. In total, Athabasca County needs to collect just short of $15.

What the RCMP called a “horrific” motor vehicle collision on Highway 63 last Friday has claimed seven lives and left two injured survivors, one of them a three-year-old boy. On Friday afternoon around 1 p.m.

The death toll from Friday’s two-vehicle crash on Highway 63 is climbing. The total now sits at seven people who died as a result of the collision. As the investigation continues, Police have released the ages of those involved.

Members of the Boyle RCMP and Wood Buffalo RCMP detachments, along with other emergency crews, are on the scene of what they’re calling a “horrific motor vehicle collision” between two pick-up trucks on Highway 63 at kilometre marker 88.

Dr. Hook featuring Ray Sawyer played to a raucous crowd on April 20 at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex. It was the first time the 40-year-old band had made it's way out to Athabasca and they played crowd favourites all night long.

After a hard-fought campaign against the Progressive Conservative (PC) party, both the Wildrose and the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidates conceded gracious defeat with nothing but warm wishes for re-elected Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater representat

Supporters surrounded re-elected incumbent Progressive Conservative candidate Jeff Johnson as a PC majority government was announced early Monday night.