Athabasca News

Dr. Roland Treu, associate professor of biology at Athabasca University, explains which mushrooms are edible and which ones aren't. The main message of the evening was that if you are not 100 per cent certain a mushroom is edible, don't eat it.

The first Boyle Wildberry Festival was a big success in the village. Red berry sumo-suited Thomas Weber takes on purple-suited Nolan Gallinger. The pair squared off for a best of three match and Weber took the top prize, with both competitors exhausted from the heat by the end.

The youth alleged to have caused over $25,000 in damage to Landing Trail Intermediate School had his first appearance in court on Monday, August 22.

After some hiccups in the engineering process, Athabasca’s new riverfront development is underway.

Mayor Roger Morrill would like to see the speed limit in Athabasca reduced to 40 kilometres an hour, but without an outcry from the community, the issue is moot. Until the public wants the speed limits changed, they will remain at 50 km/h.

Portage College is one step closer to a facility in Boyle with the donation of ten acres of land for the school’s new Heavy Equipment Operator (HEO) Training Centre.

Doug and Margo Cook were heading from Ryley to Wabasca for a vacation on Saturday afternoon when their RV trailer started fishtailing. Doug, who has over 30 years of trucking experience, managed to keep the pickup truck upright even when the trailer tipped over. The accident occurred just south of the Colinton turnoff on Highway 2.

The Rochester Fair's parade was a pirate theme this year, and approximately 1,000 people were there to watch it.

Citizens of Boyle and Athabasca County have a new resource that puts vast amounts of information at their fingertips.

Every night at 6 p.m. the news hour starts, and last Friday Trouble Shooter Julie Matthews featured Barb Bell and her notorious house on Global Edmonton News.