Innisfail News

INNISFAIL - The town has joined most other Alberta municipalities by bringing in fees for anyone wanting a criminal record check.

A 38-year-old Innisfail woman has been charged with several counts of fraud and theft following an investigation by the Red Deer RCMP. Police allege that the suspect stole more than $54,000 from her employer between September 2015 and 2017.

Innisfail RCMP responded to a distraught female following an assault on July 12. The woman was camping at the junction of the Red Deer and Medicine rivers on July 12 and told Innisfail RCMP she had been assaulted by her male companion.

Penhold fire crews were called to a vehicle fire on the west side of the train tracks in Penhold, in the early morning hours, just after 5 a.m. on July 13. Firefighters arrived to find a fully involved vehicle with no occupants around.

Emergency crews from Olds and Red Deer County responded to this collision at the intersection of Highway 2A adjacent to Highway 2 July 8 at about 5 p.m.

INNISFAIL-PENHOLD-SPRUCE VIEW - For two days the pride and love of the nation overflowed.

INNISFAIL - It was a cold and wet morning late last month when Serena Bos was making her rounds at Discovery Wildlife Park to do chores around the animal enclosures.

INNISFAIL - The town is determined to seek funding help from senior levels of government for a solution to the deepening local concern over community rail safety, notably at the controversial White Rock Crossing. "We definitely want to move forward.

INNISFAIL -The saying around town this time of year goes that rain or shine the golf game will go on, rain or shine.

BOWDEN -- A public hearing will be held this week (July 8) regarding a proposal to rezone a chunk of land — which includes the site of the old Lions Community Hall — to residential multi-family district.