Local News

About 100 people, including parents, attended an open house at the Benalto School on March 3 to discuss the future of the school and to provide input to the Chinook's Edge School Division.

After more than two and a half years in the making, the Gasoline Alley Career High School is officially open and its envied accessibility just off Highway 2 is already attracting increased interest from young adults seeking academic upgrading.

Provincial officials say warm weather and a lack of snow cover in Central Alberta could cause bears to leave their dens early this spring.

George Clark's winter of political discontent in Alberta has reached an impasse. Spring session opening day at the legislature came and went March 8 without Clark's constitutional and non-violent displacement of Premier Rachel Notley's government.

An Olds couple who journeyed to Africa to provide dental care have decided to sponsor one of the children they met there.

Mountain View County officials are looking into solutions for contamination issues at old county-owned shops in Carstairs, Didsbury, Olds and Sundre.

Re: “Wildrose wants expanded midwife services”, p. 6 in March 1 Gazette. There were about 2,700 midwife-attended births in Alberta in 2015.

Seventy-five youngsters took part in the recent Mountain View Cowpoke Junior Rodeo event at the Raecher Ranching Riding arena east of Sundre.

At my place books pile up of their own accord, stack themselves on counters, tables and shelves. How can I not read when they are so close to hand. I have been a library enthusiast my entire life.

An updated planning report regarding the possible construction of a grader storage building on the east side of Mountain View County has been presented to the county's policies and priorities committee.