Westlock News

An architectural technology student originally from Westlock recently won the top prize in a competition to come up with an environmentally-sustainable design for the Canadian Western Bank’s new main branch in Edmonton.

Balon Construction is now officially no longer the contractor on the Spirit Centre project, in accordance with a Court of Queen’s Bench ruling last Wednesday that allows the town to retake control of the project.

Moose wandering around on the home quarter of myself and my wife Joan just south of Dapp are a pretty rare sight, and to have one in the yard is even rarer. When one turned up in our farm yard the Saturday morning of Jan.

Larry Bourque attempts to draw polka dots while Ethan Patrick (left) and Konnor Smerychynski try to guess what it is while playing Pictionary at Saint Mary School's second annual games night. The event, which was put on by the school council, gave kids and their parents an opportunity to play several different board games and card games.

Alberta teachers will get a 4.3 per cent increase in their pay after talks broke down between the Alberta Teachers’ Association, the Alberta School Boards Association and the province.

The Spirit Centre project could go over budget and be delayed as a result of the town seeking to replace the project’s contractor, mayor Bruce Lennon said Friday.

A 10-year-old Vimy girl is selling her paintings to help send kids who have undergone brain surgery to camp. Rachelle Zadunayski, 10, recently underwent surgery to treat a cyst on her brain, which inspired her to help others.

Boone and Crockett official measurer Bob Daudelin measures a set of non-typical whitetail deer antlers at the Busby & District Fish and Game Association's third Antler and Horn Scoring show on Jan. 29 at Memorial Hall. Daudelin said this set of antlers would be "a buck of a lifetime” for the hunter who bagged them. The show gave area hunters a chance to show off their catches, and have them scored for a chance to be entered in the Boone and Crockett record book.

A disaster was narrowly averted at Westlock Terminals early Friday morning after a fire broke out in the main elevator by the office. The fire was discovered just after 7 a.m.

The Westlock Recreation Centre re-opened Tuesday after a heavy load of snow caused part of the roof to collapse.