Local News

With bears now coming out of hibernation in West Central Alberta, Sundre Fish and Wildlife officers are asking for public tips regarding possible illegal bear baiting.

The Chinook's Edge School Division is expected to take a serious look within the next year at the way elementary and middle school students are graded.

Mountain View County will be sending representatives to an upcoming provincial symposium regarding flood mitigation and prevention, says Deputy Reeve Patricia McKean. The Alberta Watershed Management Symposium will be held in Calgary on April 29.

Parks Canada's draft plan to bring plains bison back to Banff National Park is a good one, according to a rancher who lives and works along the western edge of Prince Albert National Park, but it needs a stronger commitment to working with ranchers a

A more than $300,000 investment at the Mountain View Seed Cleaning Plant is expected to help improve area grain fields as well as producers' bottom lines this growing season.

The democratic implications are staggering, if you care about, or even believe in, democracy in Alberta any longer.

Red Deer County and Central Alberta Regional Trail Society (CARTS) have taken one more step towards a Red Deer to Bowden and Sylvan Lake trail.

The former Midway School site could soon be the location of a manufacturing shop for the oilsands industry. The site, located 12 kilometres east of the QEII between Didsbury and Carstairs, has been vacant since 2010 when the school was closed.

After assembling a comprehensive fire plan for the areas in and around Water Valley, county officials say there are already plans underway to cover off other vulnerable areas of the county.

Pengrowth Energy Corporation is planning to build a new pipeline southwest of Olds and the company is giving people living in the area a chance to voice any concerns or questions over the proposal.