Innisfail News

Construction on an $8-million housing project is expected to start this spring or early summer. Council approved Clay Cup Developer's subdivision application for a 33-unit apartment style complex off Woodland Road last week.

A graffiti removal program is about to get more legs, following town-approved funding of $5,000. For the past four years Coun.

Open house in February for proposed substation A second round of open houses is set to start in February to get the public's feedback on a proposed substation six kilometres east of Innisfail.

For 12 years before his retirement Lawrence Gould was a mechanic for the City of Red Deer. Today, at the age of 70, he is still a car man, a collector of vintage antique automobiles.

Investigators with the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) are continuing to probe the site of a "unique" oil well blowout incident near Gleniffer Lake, 26 kilometres west of Innisfail.

Town council has enthusiastically accepted a subdivision report from Parkland Community Planning Services to allow a new development at Hawkridge Estates that would add another 43 residential lots to its burgeoning inventory.

Surgeries are expected to return to the Innisfail Health and Care Centre this July after the doors of the operating room closed six years ago.

An Innisfail oil services company owner has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for killing four Filipino temporary foreign workers and seriously injuring another while driving drunk on the wrong side of the Queen Elizabeth II Highway (Q

At long last the new multi-million dollar public library will officially open its doors on Jan. 23.

Last Saturday night the Innisfail Eagles headed north up the highway to the small town of Bentley to face off against the always powerful Generals. This was the first game of the New Year for both teams.