Opinion

Dear Editor, As a taxpayer, homeowner and manager of a local business, I depend on the Town of Barrhead to pick up my garbage on the day it is supposed to be picked up (unless there is a holiday).

The spirit of Westlock was on full display last week with a number of people and organizations stepping up to help out two very important causes — the Westlock and District Food Bank and a local family whose lives were forever changed after a bout wi

Small communities across Alberta rely on volunteer firefighters to respond to emergencies ranging from grass fires to motor vehicle collisions.

There’s an adage that says whoever has the ball gets to make the rules. But people often forget that the people who own the field also have a say. In Alberta’s case, the ball is oil and the rest of Canada is the field.

Oil is a necessary evil, is it not? We use it in everything in our modern world these days, from synthetic fabrics and televisions to fuel and the roads we drive on.

Leave it to a resident for the solution. Following the expiration of the Alberta Environment and Parks 28-day lockdown of SW19-TWP59-RGE23-W4M, we reached out to a number of Echo Lake area residents for their thoughts.

In communities — small ones especially – there’s usually one big annual event that everyone just can’t miss, where residents can interact with each other and enjoy the summer.

Methamphetamine destroys lives.

It looks like it is back to square one for Barrhead's aquatic centre project.

In case you didn’t notice, it was an exceptionally busy weekend across the Athabasca/Boyle region.