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Mountain View County councillors have voted to support fellow councillor Al Kemmere's bid for a second term as president of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC).

Prem Singh was born and grew up in Brooks where her father taught at Brooks Composite High School. She is fluent in Punjabi and has taught it to children at classes in the Sikh temple in Calgary. She reads and speaks Hindi.

Mountain View County producers probably need at least a couple more weeks of dry weather to complete the harvest, which is already behind schedule due to wet conditions over the past several months, says Grant Lastiwka, with Alberta Agriculture in Ol

DIDSBURY - Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Nathan Cooper was a delegate at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting in Didsbury.

With the Chinook's Edge School Division's transportation department deficit now sitting at more than $500,000, officials are examining bus routes to look for efficiencies, says Shawn Russell, associate superintendent of corporate services.

DIDSBURY – After multiple complaints from residents, council has done an about-face on the 20th Avenue project and the controversial boulevard. On Oct.

CARSTAIRS – After hearing a delegation from planner Sarah Neilsen regarding the Marygold Residential Development, Carstairs town council approved the first reading of an application for redesignation of 53-plus acres (21 hectares) of land located eas

Premier Rachel Notley's assurance that “municipalities (will) receive reasonable stability in operating and program funding” over the coming year is welcome news if it turns out to be true, says Al Kemmere, president of the Alberta Association of Mun

DIDSBURY - Council is taking further steps towards putting in a road ban in response to trucks carrying hydrocarbon contaminated soil to the landfill where it is used as cover.

Local MLAs Jason Nixon and Nathan Cooper say the death of former Alberta premier and member of Parliament Jim Prentice in a plane crash in B.C. on Oct. 14 is a tragic loss for the province.