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You'd be forgiven for thinking there was little more than a convenience shop, a bar and a small liquor store, judging from the outside on an average night.

Once work resumes on the delayed Big Prairie Bridge project northwest of Cremona this spring, Mountain View County (MVC) will be monitoring the project on a daily basis, say Deputy Reeve Patricia McKean.

While giving businesses increased access to information that can help them is fine, the province needs to do more to streamline and simplify business-related regulations and codes, said the chair of Mountain View County's economic development committ

As spring and warmer weather approach, bears will begin to leave their dens of hibernation in search of food after their long winter's nap, experts say.

Mountain View County councillors have heard about ongoing plans to build an animal shelter for the region in Didsbury.

The provincial government is considering shortening the Bighorn sheep hunting season by a week starting this year, say officials. The season typically runs from September to the end of November.

Members of the Sundre-based Red Deer River Quality Control Committee met with two Alberta cabinet ministers at the legislature in Edmonton on March 5.

Mountain View County (MVC) council has approved an additional $153,933 for the installation of a culvert bridge and related roadwork on the county's south side.

Wildrose energy critic and Sundre-area MLA Joe Anglin has been formulating a plan that he says would see Alberta's oil sector substantially decrease CO2 emissions, make Alberta's electricity cheaper, and clean up the province's electricity production

Mountain View County Deputy Reeve Patricia McKean says she is very pleased to hear that capital projects in the 2013 provincial budget include plans for improvements to the Highway 2 and Highway 27 intersection.