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Tall Timber Leisure Park, the huge 400-site RV park just east of the Town of Sundre, wants to connect to the municipality's new multi-million dollar east side water and waste water project but the town and Mountain View County are not expected to wor

Poachers have been very active in West Central Alberta over the past month, including during the final week of the general hunting season, with dozens of animals illegally killed and left to rot, says Sundre-Olds Fish and Wildlife officer Adam Mirus.

The South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission has revised its business plan and is re-examining its rate structures.

The man charged with second-degree murder in Timothy Guilbault's death appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Nov. 21.Aaron Guilbault is accused of killing his father, whose body was found Nov. 5 in a residence at Red Lodge Estates.

The battle between the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) and the province over the government's imposed pay settlement has raised the ominous spectre of future job action by doctors, including those who practise in rural communities.

A west central Albertan has released a new book about how setting realistic lifestyle goals and sticking to them can lead to healthier bodies and minds.

Wild Rose MP Blake Richards says while he is pleased Liberal energy critic David McGuinty – who last week called on Alberta MPs to “go back to Alberta” – has resigned his critic's portfolio, he believes the Liberal party needs a “change in attitude”

Fish and Wildlife officers have been kept hopping so far this hunting season, with more than a dozen people charged in the Sundre area since Nov. 1, say officials.“We've been very busy,” said Adam Mirus, a Sundre-Olds Fish and Wildlife officer.

The new chairman of the Mountain View County Agriculture Service Board says there are a number of issues facing the county that the board will be interested in seeing addressed over the next year.

Mountain View County councillors are expected to vote this week on whether to move forward with construction upgrades on the Acme Road in the county's far south side.