Westlock News

Several bus routes throughout the Pembina Hills school division did not run on Jan. 15, thanks to the icy road conditions and strong winds.

One man is dead and another was sent to hospital in Edmonton after they were struck by a pickup truck on Highway 44 last Monday.

A 28-year-old Westlock man is dead following a Monday-night crash north of town that shut down Highway 44 for three-and-a-half hours. RCMP say a local towing company employee was attempting to pull a vehicle out of the ditch on Jan.

Alberta's own T. Buckley (left), pictured here with Derek Pulliam on the stand-up bass, brought his mix of country and folk music to a near-capacity crowd at the Cultural Arts Theatre last Friday night.

The search for a replacement for Westlock—St. Paul MP Brian Storseth as the federal representative for the Westlock area has its first entrant.

Half a dozen RCMP officers in nearly as many police vehicles were on the scene of a fatality in Westlock’s Southview neighbourhood last Monday afternoon. The body of a 93-year-old woman had been discovered outside a residence in the area.

Although Alberta Health Services has been campaigning hard this year asking everybody to get flu immunization shots, the supply has now run dry.

New Westlock County reeve Bud Massey is ready to take what he has learned in his two months on council and apply it to where he and his fellow councillors want to take the municipality.

A Busby man is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 8 to face charges related to the deaths of his son and another man.

Since being elected as the Town of Westlock’s new mayor, Ralph Leriger has been kept busy getting up to speed as his first term in office ramps up.