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The provincial government has put out a call for engineering firms to submit proposals for the examination of the Red Deer River with the aim of coming up with long-term flood reduction measures.

Chinook's Edge School Division schools are playing host to 40 international students from five different countries who are here to experience Canadian culture.

Three years after a 68-year-old man was shot and killed on a rural property in the Fallen Timber area south of Sundre, his 63-year-old wife has been convicted in the death.

Schools throughout the Chinook's Edge School Division are building the citizenship skills of its students through participation in ‘We Act' initiatives wherever possible.

Members of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMD&C) have passed more than a dozen resolutions calling for the provincial government to, among other things, reinstate funding to local and bridge programs.

Mountain View County (MVC) Division 7 councillor Al Kemmere has been elected as a director on the board of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMD&C) for a third time.

Chapter 1 of Sandy Bexon's first novel, Moving Mountains – Secrets, Romance & High Tea in the Canadian Rockies, begins with heroine Aspen looking up from the pastry table to see “yet another reporter approaching her tea house.

Despite reports of a shortage of railcars in Western Canada for transporting a record grain crop, local grain distributions said they have had no problem sending this year's crop to market.

The Redford government has missed the mark with its new Alberta Health Act, and in particular its provisions to create a seniors advocate office that answers to the minister of health, according to Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle.

Eleven sculptures have recently been donated to the Bergen Rocks collection, broadening the range of art at the park and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the collections' value.