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Several volunteers in the Sundre and Olds area have spent the last year and a half building a house destined for Saskatchewan last week, for people helping teenage boys recover from addiction.

Didsbury-area ranchers Ron and Laurie Hunter were recently honoured as the purebred breeder of the year by the Alberta Angus Association. The couple, who operate Lauron Red Angus about 16 kilometres east of Didsbury, have 200 Angus heifers.

Some Mountain View County farms participated in the provincewide Alberta Open Farm Days on August 23 and 24, showing visitors a day in the life of their operations.

The clubroot tour has hit Central Alberta. On Aug.

The Marshall family children are Summer Synergy Scholarship superstars with all four being honoured for their livestock and academia.

The Cremona area in Mountain View County will soon have its very own medical marijuana production facility, which is expected to hire up to 50 full-time employees by the time the operation is in full swing, say officials. Aurora Cannabis Inc.

Mountain View County staff are now working overtime to complete planned road re-gravelling before the snow falls.

A brick of a wallet being lugged around in your back pocket may be the cause of the shooting pain in your legs and buttocks.

The company that launched a $32-million lawsuit last fall against Mountain View County and two of its former councillors is appealing the court decision that dismissed the claim.

A decision on whether a new land use district for aggregate extraction and processing should be created in Mountain View County has been deferred until Oct. 23. County council held a combined public hearing on Aug.