Athabasca News

In the early afternoon hours on May 13, a wildfire started burning just northeast of Grassland towards Alberta Pacific Forest Industries (Al-Pac). The fire is located approximately 17 kilometres northwest from the mill site.

Mary Coleman goes for a twirl at the Boyle Twilight Twirlers square dancing anniversary event at the Ellscott Community Hall on Saturday.

Athabasca town council will empty their fire reserves to give the Athabasca Volunteer Fire Department $7,000 to purchase a new first response truck.

Aspen View School Division is above the provincial staffing standard after passing their 2012-2013 school year operating budget, which will run a deficit.

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.