Innisfail News

INNISFAIL -- The town has divided up $172,000 of provincial Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) funding for local non-profit community groups, with the winners being senior citizens and Chinook's Edge School Division. At town council's Jan.

BOWDEN - Councillors have voted to spend $10,000 (plus GST) to rebrand the Town of Bowden. Councillors made that decision during a council meeting earlier this month, accepting a proposal by Okotoks-based Rynic Communications. Coun.

SPRINGBROOK -- RCMP are still pursuing a desperate gunman wanted in connection to a carjacking and head-on two-vehicle crash last week that injured and shook up seven children riding on a school bus near Springbrook. On Jan.

SPRINGBROOK - Seven children and a driver riding on a Chinook's Edge School Division bus miraculously escaped serious injury or worse after being involved in a head-on collision with a stolen truck operated by an armed and dangerous fugitive being pu

INNISFAIL – The town has once again opened it doors to Syrian refugees. Duaa Alhariri, 30, and her two sons, Hadi, 4, and Omar, 3, arrived in Canada just before the new year on Dec. 29.

INNISFAIL – For two decades literacy has been a family affair. This year marks a special milestone for Family Literacy Day that's celebrated nationally every year on Jan. 27.

INNISFAIL - A frantic effort by three RCMP police detachments to find a runaway preteen couple - dubbed Romeo and Juliet on social media - ended after 12 hours of public alarm with the kids found safe and unharmed in Airdrie. "They are fine.

INNISFAIL - The old airport four killometres northwest of town is set to receive a huge million-dollar makeover.

PENHOLD – The town is reaffirming its support for the province's beleaguered oil and gas sector. Town council passed a motion during the Jan. 14 council meeting to publicly demonstrate their support for Alberta’s largest energy resources.

INNISFAIL - A controversial piece of Woodlands-area property in the town's deep south that was unanimously turned down last year by town council for industrial use has now been successfully rezoned as a potential sales and services site for oilfield