Westlock, Athabasca, Barrhead News

Westlock County settles on 2.12 per cent provisional property tax increase

Policing costs and bad debt increased operational expenses

Dec 24, 2019 8:12 AM Read more >

Westlock & District Chamber of Commerce website goes live

Inaugural awards gala is also in the works for April

Dec 23, 2019 3:06 PM Read more >

Calling Lake man swings machete at RCMP officers

Twenty-eight-year-old man now faces five charges, including assaulting a police officer

Dec 23, 2019 10:04 AM Read more >

Fire destroys home and attached garage

Mechanical malfunction is believed to be the cause of a Dec. 10 fire northwest of the Hamlet of Vega

Dec 23, 2019 8:30 AM Read more >

Athabasca food bank gets $57,300 from the province

The Good Samaritan Ministries Association Food Bank currently serves about 2,300 people

Dec 22, 2019 3:43 PM Read more >

Proposed changes slanted against rural physicians, says AMA

Some big “ifs” around what the province has proposed, says Dr. Ed Aasman

Dec 22, 2019 8:39 AM Read more >

Showing their hearts for charity

Freedom-Naples 4-H Club sewing project members create fabric hearts to give to the neo-natal intensive care units at the Stollery, Royal Alexandria and University of Alberta

Dec 21, 2019 3:35 PM Read more >

Athabasca man heads BMT Canada

Rural life gave Darcy Byrtus the skills to succeed

Dec 21, 2019 12:35 PM Read more >

Province eyes auto insurance industry reform

Appointed committee will advise government on potential solutions for rising premium rates

Dec 21, 2019 8:35 AM Read more >

Investigation continues into Aspen Grove fire

Body found following early-morning blaze Dec. 18 in Boyle

Dec 20, 2019 4:13 PM Read more >

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