Westlock News

Westlock County residents are facing a projected three per cent mill rate increase after council passed the municipality’s 2016 operating and capital budgets last week. At their Feb. 9 meeting councillors passed the $25.

A Westlock County man was airlifted to hospital following a crash between an SUV and tractor-trailer on Highway 2 near Vimy on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Police say shortly after 2:30 p.m.

Two area men face charges including second-degree murder and accessory to murder in relation to the death of a Redwater man who had been missing since late January.

Restricting students from riding transfer buses to schools outside of their designated attendance area will not fix declining enrolment issues, parents told Pembina Hills Public Schools trustees at two public meetings last week.

The RCMP are now investigating the homicide of a 56-year-old man whose SUV was found north of Westlock Jan. 30. Randy Lopushinsky has not been seen or heard from since Jan.

Following a two-month search, Westlock County has hired Duane Coleman to lead the municipality. Following an in-camera session at council’s Feb. 9 meeting, a motion was made to hire Coleman, who will assume the post as county CAO March 7.

Peter Beckett's peculiar actions around the time of his wife's death and his alleged abusiveness towards her summarized a week's worth of Crown evidence as Beckett's first-degree murder trial resumed in Kamloops Supreme Court on Feb. 1.

A family of Syrian refugees have arrived in the Westlock area after a local group had its sponsorship application approved last week. After months of work, the Westlock and District Refugee Resettlement Association got the final OK on Monday, Feb.

Westlock RCMP has seized over $14,000 worth of illicit drugs after an overnight bust on Sunday. Police say quantities of crystal meth, morphine, valium and fentanyl pills, along with liquid GHB were among the drugs seized arrest.

Town ratepayers face a 2.