Innisfail News

INNISFAIL – Central Alberta Co-op’s new Innisfail Gas Bar is now open for business. The long-awaited gas bar, which began servicing customers in early June, held its grand opening on June 19.

INNISFAIL - High school completion rates have increased and dropout rates have fallen in Chinook’s Edge School Division (CESD) over the past year, according to a newly released report from Alberta Education.

INNISFAIL - Six and a half years after he murdered a disabled Innisfail woman with a pipe bomb disguised as a Christmas present, Brian Malley has lost his final chance for appeal.

PENHOLD - A local senior is officially listed in life-threatening condition after sustaining serious burns from a fire that started near a medical appliance in her home.

INNISFAIL - Former United Conservative Party (UCP) MLA Donald Macintyre is scheduled to be back in court in January on charges of sexual assault and sexual interference with a minor. MacIntyre was charged in February following a police investigation.

INNISFAIL - The RCMP Police Dog Service Centre is now bigger and better. And the world-class facility also proves it never forgets its own.

INNISFAIL – The sun shone through and helped make the 58th annual Innisfail Rotary Parade another success. More than 50 floats from Innisfail and area organizations, businesses, churches and clubs filled the streets for the event on June 16.

INNISFAIL - A new era of landscaping planning has officially begun for the town's industrial business community.

INNISFAIL - Town council has given its support to an Innisfail Lions Club initiative to study the feasibility of Dodd's Lake becoming a local fishing hole.

INNISFAIL – The Innisfail Seniors Drop-In Centre has a new name. “It’s now called the Lundgren Centre,” said member Jean Bennett. “Mabel and Oscar Lundgren were the couple that began the senior drop-in (society) 44 years ago.