Westlock News

Village of Clyde council has ended its Court of Queen’s Bench action to remove Coun. Doug Nyal from office.

Words like repair, replace and rehabilitate loom large in the Town of Westlock’s 2018 capital budget.

Alberta’s NDP government took a few pages from the United Conservative playbook in its Speech from the Throne March 8, says Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Glenn van Dijken.

A community is grieving after 15-year-old Thorhild Central School student Maisie Watkinson was killed following a March 7 crash between her school bus and a gravel truck.

Local women of all ages and walks of life celebrated International Women’s Day March 8 at Westlock’s fifth annual Women’s Symposium. “I think it was a huge success,” said organizer Sylvia Yoder, who is executive director of the Hope Resource Centre.

A Thorhild Central School student is dead following an early-morning collision between an Aspen View Public School Division school bus and gravel truck on Opal Road, south west of the Village of Thorhild.

Westlock is two steps closer to a new water reservoir as town council accepted a tender for construction of the $6-million-plus project and passed a borrowing bylaw to help pay for part of it. At its Feb. 26 meeting, council awarded Pomerleau Inc.

Town of Westlock residents will see a 3.4 per cent increase in their property taxes this year, mostly due to the fact the municipality will soon pay for its policing services.

The Westlock RCMP Detachment has a new commanding officer as Sgt. Al Baird officially took the reins from Sgt. Bob Dodds last week, who had been splitting his time between Barrhead and Westlock.

RCMP arrested a man at a local bar last week, charging him with three counts of possession of a dangerous weapon after he was found carrying a loaded pellet gun, a baton and a set of brass knuckles. “That kind of stuff is going on all the time….