Westlock News

RCMP continue their search for wanted fugitive Curtis Powder after a recent incident in Barrhead. Barrhead RCMP Sgt. Bob Dodds said that on Oct.

Area RCMP used a helicopter, multiple ground teams and GPS location tracking to hunt down a stolen truck and arrest the alleged thief on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

Five months after taking office, Rachel Notley and Alberta’s NDPs were on the hot seat last week delivering their first provincial budget.

A planed $5 million upgrade to roads and sidewalks, as well as sewer and water services in a section of Southview, has been approved by Westlock town council. During discussions at council Oct.

The former director of the Westlock Daycare faces jail time and a six-figure restitution order. In Westlock Provincial Court Oct.

Murtaza Jamaly is Westlock’s newest town councillor after winning Monday’s byelection in a landslide. Out of 797 votes cast, Jamaly earned 474, or almost 60 per cent of the overall vote.

An area man’s recent crime spree, which included involvement in a property-theft ring, has earned him a lengthy prison stay. In Westlock Provincial Court Sept.

A plan to rezone a parcel of land in the Whissellville area drew around 30 residents to a public hearing last week. The Municipal Affairs-mandated hearing at the Town of Westlock council meeting on Monday, Sept.

The Aspen Primary Care Network (PCN) — a collaborative team of 20 physicians and other professionals serving Westlock, Boyle and Athabasca — is establishing a new “health home” in Westlock,.

A Saturday-morning blaze has badly damaged a home in Pibroch. Fire crews were called out to a structure fire shortly after 10 a.m. on Sept. 19 and regional fire chief John Biro said within 45 minutes crews had contained the blaze.