Local News

With the 2019 provincial election campaign now at an end, the 2019 federal election race is already unofficially underway. Who will come out on top in the federal battle remains anyone’s guess.

Police believe gunfire that struck an Eagle Hill residence on Sunday morning was deliberately targeted at the occupant, according to Olds RCMP Staff Sgt. Jim MacDonald. At about 4:40 a.m.

Re: “Ible wants to carry on NDP work,” p. 5, April 9. Candidate Jeff Ible says the province should receive a “fair price for our chief natural resource, which is, of course, crude oil.” Incorrect information appeared.

CARSTAIRS -- Carstairs town council and staff continue to go through old policies and clean them up, said CAO Carl McDonnell.

DIDSBURY -- After a great deal of discussion, councillors voted in favour of awarding the skatepark fundraising consultant project to Jordan Cleland Consulting of Olds at a maximum of $60,000 plus GST.

Mountain View Seniors' Housing (MVSH) residents will not be negatively impacted by the termination of contracts with Alberta Health Services (AHS), says chairman Bruce Beattie.

The Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission is doing well in several areas, says Mountain View County Deputy Reeve Angela Aalbers. “Overall I think things are going really well,” said Aalbers.

For most people going through a cancer diagnosis once in a lifetime is traumatic enough. Terrie McEwen went through it twice, 22 years apart.

Jeff Ible, the NDP candidate in the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre riding, says he is concerned and disgusted by vandalism to a number of NDP campaign signs in Sundre over the weekend.

Gordon Francey, a Canadian military veteran, is running as an Independent candidate for the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House - Sundre riding.