Athabasca News

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.

The green team sticks with it at LEGO Robotics Camp, hosted by Science Outreach Athabasca at the Multiplex on August 10 and 11. More than 30 kids participated in the program. For the full story, check out the August 16 edition of the Athabasca Advocate

The Alberta government’s announcement of another $189 million for Slave Lake relief efforts also includes money earmarked for municipalities who housed and fed evacuees.

It 's easy to understand why the people of Baptiste Lake might feel negatively towards the stinky, scummy, potentially toxic layer of film that graces their resident body of water and its shores every year.

Local police officers are on the hunt for the perpetrators of five potentially connected break and enters at downtown businesses in the last three weeks.