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The district dairy has been named to host the 2014 Breakfast on the Dairy Farm event next month, officials said Thursday. The Van der Sluys Dairy will open its doors to the general public on June 21 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

It was a relatively quiet long weekend for police, but there were still a large number of fines and tickets handed out between May 16 and 19, say area RCMP detachments. Cpl.

Shari Klumpenhower may have been a late starter with her career as a school teacher but after just one year she is already turning heads as a gifted educator.

Alberta's Conservatives need a silver bullet to stop the Wildrose Party before the next election. In the past eight years they have rejected two wannabes -- Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford.

The Chinook's Edge School Division board has decided that the division will discontinue a school bus shuttle service between Bowden and Innisfail starting in the fall of 2015.

Mountain View County's municipal planning commission has been asked to review and provide comments on the new rural commercial district designation being proposed for the municipality.

Mountain View County councillors have approved $40,000 in funding for the Legacy Land Trust project now underway in the region.

The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is urging all farmers to protect themselves against the potentially harmful use of chemicals by using as much safety gear as possible when handling chemicals.

Mountain View County council has approved a one-year amnesty program for non-compliant developments. A motion approving the program was passed at the May 14 regularly scheduled council meeting. The program will be in effect until June 1, 2015.

Mountain View County officials are helping to educate the public about late blight disease in Alberta in an attempt to contain the potential damage it could cause to tomato and potato crops.