Westlock News

Zach Savage is one of the best sledge hockey players in Canada.

No injuries were reported after 12 rail cars jumped the CN Rail Westlock Sub-Line just south of the Hamlet of Pickardville at approximately 9:30 a.m. Oct. 7.

At approximately 9:30 a.m., Oct. 7, a train derailed spilling a dozen cars off the track just south of the Hamlet of Pickardville. No injuries were reported. See more details in Tuesday's edition of the Westlock News.

Despite the current tough economic times in the province, the Nelly’s Project III fundraiser held at the Westlock and District Community Hall on Sept.

Westlock County has postponed the $1.9 million Jarvie water treatment plant upgrade until the Westlock Regional Water Services Commission moves ahead with the Fawcett waterline extension. Contrary to reports from council’s Sept.

After four years of fundraising, St. Mary School will finally get its new playground this spring. On Monday, Sept. 26 the St.

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to just over four years in jail for the fatal shooting of his teenaged cousin in Rochester on New Year’s Day. In St. Albert Provincial Court Sept.

A Monday-afternoon blaze gutted a 50,000-square-foot Busby-area chicken barn and killed thousands of egg-laying hens. The fire broke out at 4:30 p.m. Sept.

A Rochester man will spend two years behind bars for assisting to dump the body of Randy Lopushinshy. In St. Albert Provincial Court Sept. 23, Judge Clifton Purvis sentenced Billy Joe Deren, 37, to two years in jail.