Athabasca News

Fire services in Wandering River have been suspended effective Feb. 15. “We had a critical shortage of volunteers,” said Athabasca County director of emergency services Ron Jackson. “We were down to two.

After a one-year hiatus, the Boyle Healthcare Centre Auxiliary has completed their eighth annual Tree of Hope campaign. “As always, the public has been very generous and supportive of our efforts,” said Lois Bourret of the auxiliary.

The woman who hand-delivered a notice entitled ‘Buyer Beware’ to hundreds of homes in Athabasca has filed a lawsuit seeking $1.1 million after purchasing what she claims is a structurally unsound home on Hees Court in July 2009.

Athabasca and area Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) came before Atahabasca County council with a three-year business plan that was received warmly by council members.

Downtown Athabasca is getting a new strip mall and maybe some new big names in chain outlets by this fall.

Athabasca-Redwater MLA Jeff Johnson will join Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert in Minnesota and Illinois from Feb. 6-9 to help promote Alberta’s energy sector.

Staff cuts within the Aspen View School Division are now certain in the face of continually falling enrollment numbers. Speaking to the Advocate Thursday, Aspen View superintendent Brian LeMessurier said, “There will be staff cuts.

The Alberta Food Bank Network Association (AFBNA) would like to reassure the Boyle Food Bank that they have not been forgotten.

Former Athabasca youth worker Jason Andrew Keough was found guilty Monday on two counts of possessing child pornography, one count of voyeurism and one count of making voyeuristic material.

A 77-year-old woman’s fight to keep her husband in the community where they spent their lives together and raised a family came to a happy conclusion this week.