Westlock News

Following a two-month search, Westlock County has hired Duane Coleman to lead the municipality. Following an in-camera session at council’s Feb. 9 meeting, a motion was made to hire Coleman, who will assume the post as county CAO March 7.

The RCMP are now investigating the homicide of a 56-year-old man whose SUV was found north of Westlock Jan. 30. Randy Lopushinsky has not been seen or heard from since Jan.

Peter Beckett's peculiar actions around the time of his wife's death and his alleged abusiveness towards her summarized a week's worth of Crown evidence as Beckett's first-degree murder trial resumed in Kamloops Supreme Court on Feb. 1.

A family of Syrian refugees have arrived in the Westlock area after a local group had its sponsorship application approved last week. After months of work, the Westlock and District Refugee Resettlement Association got the final OK on Monday, Feb.

Westlock RCMP has seized over $14,000 worth of illicit drugs after an overnight bust on Sunday. Police say quantities of crystal meth, morphine, valium and fentanyl pills, along with liquid GHB were among the drugs seized arrest.

Town ratepayers face a 2.

Former Westlock-area MP Dave Chatters passed away at the Westlock Healthcare Centre Jan. 25 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 69. “The wonderful thing is he was lucid almost to the end.

Area residents were educated on how to participate in Alberta Utilities Commission’s (AUC) summer public hearing process, the final step in determining the fate of the proposed $1.49 billion Fort McMurray West 500-kV Transmission Project.

Alberta SPCA say charges are pending against a Westlock County animal owner after more than two-dozen horses in distress were seized in the Busby area on Jan. 15.

Friends, family and coworkers of the late Laura Letts-Beckett were among those who took the stand in the first week of the first-degree murder trial against Peter Beckett. The trial began in Kamloops Supreme Court Tuesday, Jan.