Westlock News

Residents living east of Tawatinaw have had to wait up to three weeks to get their roads graded after recent snows.

An Edmonton man faces numerous Criminal Code charges following a March 5 dispute at a downtown hotel that saw police confiscate a loaded 9-mm handgun. A March 8 press release from Westlock RCMP Staff Sgt. Dwayne Rawson says that at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, they received a complaint of a man in possession of a handgun in the area of the Westlock Hotel.

The Pembina and Smithfield Lodges will get $1.49 million to bring their fire and safety systems up to a new provincial standard.

Parents in the Flatbush-Chisholm area and at least one councillor with the MD of Lesser Slave River are upset that the Pembina Hills school division is unable to provide regular bus service to Pembina North Community School. On Feb.

Traffic lights will be installed at the intersection of Highway 18 and 108th Avenue in Westlock after Alberta Transportation gave the go ahead to the project.

Westlock County is continuing to push for a $2 million project that would see turning lanes installed on Highway 44 near the municipality’s industrial park.

Village of Clyde councillors have expressed disappointment, frustration and even anger with a recent report from the Village of Clyde Viability Review Team.

Hundreds of people enjoyed Family Day at the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill Feb. 16. Dalton Masur lined up a shot of his brother Daniel getting some air off the big jump.

Westlock-St. Paul MP Brian Storseth has put his name in the mix for the provincial Progressive Conservative nomination for Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills.

The possibility of a merger between the Westlock Foundation and Sturgeon Foundation has been raised by Sturgeon County according to a report in the Feb. 3 edition of the Redwater Review.