Athabasca News

Athabasca County is not against the designation of the Old Brick School, officials said last week.

Nadine Giroux pours some hot maple syrup over snow during Whispering Hills Public School French Culture Days. (clockwise, l-r) Jodynne MacNeil, Kyan Coray, Chlo ë Rich, Zachary Wysosky, Ava Heroux (obscured), Addyson Kocher, Nick Maheden, Christian Francis, Ladelle MacNeil, Lucy Woodburn-Elliott, and Cohen Griffin watch Giroux work.

Athabasca town councillors’ disagreements over its 2012 budget — particularly the hotly-contested decision to pave the old Colinton highway to Hees Estates — spilled over to social media last week.

A potential location for a new Highway 813 bridge over the Athabasca River was presented to Athabasca town council last Tuesday, but Alberta Transportation – and later, the town itself – refused to acknowledge it.

Athabasca town councillors didn’t see eye to eye when it came to approving its capital and operating budgets for 2012. Following an amendment, town council unanimously passed a $7.

Scores of kids search for treasures during Koch Ford Athabasca's 11th Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt last Saturday. The dealership was packed with children and parents for the annual event, where more than $4,000 in candy and prizes were given away.

Verbal daggers were thrown inside Athabasca’s Nancy Appleby Theatre Monday night during a provincial candidates forum.

BlackPearl Resources Inc. is seeking regulatory approval for a steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil recovery project 50 kilometres northwest of Wandering River.

The Alberta Energy Corridor (AEC) has a new executive director; Jeri Romaniuk. The AEC is an agency that is funded by industry and government to help economic development in the Athabasca, Boyle, and Wandering River area.

With the provincial election campaign underway, the Alberta Liberal Party has entered a candidate in Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, and his name is Gino Akbari. A resident of Edmonton, Akbari is making his first attempt at running for political office.