Westlock News

The Westlock Senior Warriors are one victory away from their first North Central Hockey League crown.

It's standing room only. All but one or two of the people at March 10 meeting are there to talk about Alberta PowerLine's planed 500 kilo-volt, $1.43 billion power line project that may end up winding its way through Westlock County.

Local Wildrose rank and file party members will be asked choose from two men who’ll represent their party in the Barrhead-Morinville-Westock riding at the next provincial election.

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.