Local News

INNISFAIL - The 2019 provincial election race is on. On Tuesday morning (March 19) in Calgary, Premier Rachel Notley announced Albertans will go to the polls on April 16 for the province's 30th general election.

Locations for an advance polls and Election Day polling stations in Olds for the April 16 provincial election have now been determined. Advance polls will be held at the Olds Legion Hall from Tuesday, April 9 through Saturday, April 13.

With Albertans going to the polls on April 16, there are a total of eight declared candidates in region as of Tuesday.

An Olds real estate assistant, Clare Dickie, expects things to be different in her homeland of New Zealand when she travels there in October.

DIDSBURY -- The Didsbury Skatepark Committee is getting a little closer to its goal of building a new skatepark on the Didsbury Memorial Complex outlying grounds.

Members from clubs across the region took part in the 4-H Mountain View District Communication competition at Olds College on March 9.

Legacy Land Trust Society has announced the formal conservation of Owl Ridge adjacent to Winchell Lake Environmentally Significant Area (ESA) in the southwest corner of Mountain View County.

DIDSBURY -- After several months of discussion and debate, the Town of Didsbury's 2019 operating budget was passed at the regular meeting on March 12.

For the second straight year, a 250-student classroom addition to Carstairs Elementary School is the top priority infrastructure project in Chinook’s Edge School Division, say officials.

Work on the draft 2019 Mountain View County operating budget is continuing this week after councillors reviewed the latest version of the document at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.