Westlock News

Despite a 7.57 per cent average decline in residential assessment values, most Town of Westlock home owners will face a small tax increase this year.

Glenn van Dijken will ride a blue United Conservative Party wave into the Legislature with premier-elect Jason Kenney, easily capturing the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock riding with roughly 70 per cent of the popular vote.

The long-awaited turning lanes into the Westlock County Industrial Park south of town will not be built this year and may be put off until 2022.

For the second time in less than a year Village of Clyde residents will head to the polls. June 24 has been set for the byelection to fill the seat vacated by mayor Matthew White, who resigned April 1.

All five-candidates vying for the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock seat had an opportunity to share their platforms and answer a few questions from the audience last week as the Westlock and District Chamber of Commerce and the Westlock News presented an

Just a handful of months into his tenure as mayor of the Village of Clyde, Matthew White has stepped down and left the community.

Jobs and the economy were top of mind for voters at an April 3 all-candidates forum in Barrhead.

The five candidates running for the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock constituency crown will get a chance to have their say next week in advance of the April 16 provincial election.

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Reports of election vandalism have reached the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock constituency, as the NDP campaign reports that about 300 signs have been stolen or damaged during the campaign.