Westlock News

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.

A column of smoke rises into the air from a fire engulfing the Severson Free Run Barn northeast of Busby on Monday, Sept. 19. County firefighters were called to the scene along Range Road 264 at around 4:30 p.m. The cause of the blaze and extent of the damage is unknown at this time. See the Sept. 27 edition of the Westlock News for more.

The Town of Westlock will begin to repair damage to municipal infrastructure following last month’s overland flood. At council’s Sept.

After a split decision, the Fawcett Fire Department will get a new $550,000 home after Westlock County councillors finally agreed to fund the project. Councillors voted 4-3 at their Sept.

Westlock County will begin addressing deficiencies at the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill including repairs to the parking lot and fixing landscaping around the chalet as part of a phased construction approach. At their Sept.

The numbers are in and rural physician recruitment in the Westlock area continues to grow.

Eight weeks. That's how long Westlock County councillors will wait until they'll find out whether they'll get a full Municipal Affairs inspection following the completion of the ministry's initial review earlier this month.

Weeks after a flash flood brought on by relentless rain, several businesses are still struggling to cope with the aftermath of what’s being called a once-in-a-generation phenomenon. Water levels have long-since subsided from the Aug.