Local News

Mountain View County's policies and priorities committee has endorsed a plan to reduce the speed limit from 80 km/h to 60 km/h near the intersections of Twp. Rd. 340 and range roads 43 and 44 to address concerns from some residents of the area.

Local growing operations have stepped up to the plate, or have continued a tradition of helping to resolve hunger and other issues plaguing Third World countries across the globe.

The increase of doctors in Kneehill County from two to nine in the last year and a half hasn't gone without notice.Reeve Bob Long said more people are choosing to visit local doctors since numbers have stabilized.

With cold winter weather about to set in, the Red Deer-based Central Alberta Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing is reminding people in need across the region that services and supports are available for the asking.

The Alberta Farm Safety Centre has once again requested that Mountain View County's Ag Service Board contribute funding to its UFA Safety Smarts program, which offers free farm safety training to rural elementary-aged (K-6) students throughout the pr

Mountain View County has completed the critical first phase of the four-kilometre berm designed to stop overland flooding from a new channel of the Red Deer River upstream of Sundre.Prentice Creek Contracting carried out the work between Oct.

Mountain View County administration will report back to council on the cost of building a 40-tonne replacement bridge for Big Prairie Road instead of a planned 80-tonne structure.

A 28-year-old man who sexually assaulted a female acquaintance in Olds two years ago has been handed a federal prison sentence.

A violent alcohol-fuelled domestic argument that allegedly escalated into threats of murder-suicide has resulted in a rural man facing 16 Criminal Code charges.Didsbury RCMP were dispatched at 9:45 p.m.

Mountain View County fought it at every turn ñ but in the end the Elsner subdivision has been granted approval by a higher authority.In an Oct.