Local News

Family and Community Support Services funding to organizations in Mountain View County will rise by 25 per cent from last year after council approved this year's grants at its Feb. 1 meeting.

Council voted Feb. 1 to put up $30,000 to gauge the feasibility of establishing a land trust in Mountain View County.The decision came after a conference call with consultant Jim Smith of Mancroft Resource Group.

The trial of a 31-year-old man charged after his then-girlfriend was allegedly choked on an industrial shop floor in Sundre in 2009 will continue in June, a judge said Wednesday.

Since mid-October, 20 women from Mountain View County and other surrounding counties have volunteered their time, yarn and skills to knit 58 scarves for Special Olympics Canada Winter Games participants.

Almost two-thirds of Canadians surveyed last month for an Environics Research poll support a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing ñ or fracking ñ until the federal government conducts environmental reviews of the practice.

Red Deer County council wrestled over a development permit application for discretionary use for a riding arena and stables during its Municipal Planning Commission meeting last week.

A 30-year-old man who repeatedly punched a woman in the head during a confrontation in a Didsbury residence a year ago has been ordered to complete community service hours.

The Olds and Red Deer agricultural societies will each receive $142,850 from the provincial government as part of announced $2 million in funding to ag societies around the province.

Suicide levels in Alberta have reached record levels, with men three times more likely than women to take their own lives, according to new statistics obtained by the Gazette.

Nationwide operating practices for shale hydraulic fracking operations introduced by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) for its members on Jan. 30 failed to impress the Alberta NDP's environment critic.