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Samantha Hillier is looking forward to beginning her career as a fish and wildlife officer in the Sundre area.

After a two-year delay, work has resumed on preparing a new Mountain View County area structure plan (ASP) for the Wessex area around Carstairs.

A new administrative procedure allowing for the formal reporting of fiscal wrongdoings and other concerns within the Chinook's Edge School Division will hopefully help improve the learning environment for students and the workplace for teachers and s

Homeowners are often reminded to have a plan for emergencies, from food and water storage to an escape route in case of a fire.

Mountain View County councillors have OK'd a number of recommendations regarding proposed changes to the provincial local road bridge program (LRBP).

The Chinook's Edge School Division trustees have approved a number of proposed projects under the division's 2014-2017 capital plan. The capital plan is for projects the division would like to move forward with.

Bruce Beattie has been reappointed reeve of Mountain View County. During the Oct. 22 organizational meeting, councillors voted unanimously to return Beattie to the position for a fourth time.

Although the Alberta government has included snowbirds as a group that will benefit from a recently announced extension of the time Albertans can spend vacationing outside the province and still receive health-care coverage, Maxine Johnston isn't imp

While many West Central Alberta residents have little if anything good to say about recent icy winter conditions, Darren Schaedeli is quite the opposite. In fact, he believes that when it comes to ice, the more the merrier.

Everett and Susan Page weren't expecting a visitor to their Didsbury-area property last week ñ but that's exactly what they got in the form of an unusual looking white-tailed deer.