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DIDSBURY - At the regular meeting on Jan. 10, council defeated a land use bylaw amendment (Bylaw 2017-01) for property at 3001 23rd St. in Didsbury. The bylaw would have redesignated 19.

Area MLA Jason Nixon hopes that a new ministerial panel formed to examine the province's child intervention system and make recommendations for improvements will lead to a better overall care for children and their families.

The contractor conducting the bridge upgrade over the Dog Pound Creek on Highway 27 between Sundre and Olds has completed a big step in the process, installing massive steel girders over the new section over the past few weeks, officials said.

Mountain View County's northern pocket gopher control program is now open to youths only. The county's agricultural service board passed a motion at its recent regularly scheduled meeting regarding the program.

Come over and play some Cards Against Humanity, someone asked me the other day. Well OK, I don't know many people in town, so why not? I'm usually for humanity, but I'm up for anything. Socializing is a strange thing.

A group of area residents in Mountain View County Division 7 northeast of Olds has made a formal request that the municipality remove the confined feeding operation (CFO) designation under the municipal development plan (MDP) on 16 quarters of land n

Whoopee, I've got my free national parks pass. Yes, I'm one of those awful people who are going to troop into as many national parks as possible in this year-long birthday bash Canada's merrily engaged upon.

The Mountain View County policies and priorities committee has been given an update on the work of the multi-stakeholder Central Alberta Economic Partnership (CAEP). The move came during the committee's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

Three weeks into the province's new carbon levy program, municipalities in the district are still trying to gauge the impacts on their respective operations, say officials.

The Alberta electoral boundaries commission will begin public hearings this week as part of its examination of the 87 ridings in the province.