Beyond Local

Mountain View County’s reeve isn’t putting much stock in the county’s inclusion on a Canadian magazine’s list of best communities in Canada to live.

The federal government announced today a more than $1.9 million investment in furthering agricultural technological advancement at Olds College.

Devin Dreeshen is a humbled man.

FIELD, B.C. – Condolences flooded Albe Bulmer’s social media status hours after he announced his son, Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer, was one of the three who died in the Monday (Feb. 4) CP train derailment near Field, B.C.

FIELD, B.C. – Three Canadian Pacific Railway crew members are dead following a massive train derailment near Field, B.C. in Yoho National Park.

The mother of Jaxon Joseph, a former St. Albert Raiders player who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash last April, told the driver who caused the deadly crash she would never forgive him. In an emotional address to the court in Melfort, Sask.

Christina Haugan, the wife of late Humboldt Broncos coach Darcy Haugan, told the court in Melfort, Sask., Tuesday about the immense suffering she and her two children have gone through since Darcy's death.

The Crown is seeking a 10-year jail sentence for the driver of a semi-truck who collided with the Humboldt Broncos team bus last April.

As Crown and defence lawyers wrapped up their submissions in the case of truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu Thursday afternoon, Sidhu addressed the loved ones of the Humboldt Broncos players who were aboard the team bus Sidhu struck last year.

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu didn't realize he had blown through an intersection until he was climbing out of the door of his semi, which was now above him, as his truck lay on its side in the intersection.