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The ongoing investigation into an airplane crash that killed three men outside Sundre last September has confirmed that the aircraft made a touch-and-go landing at the Sundre airport only moments before crashing, said John Pearson, a senior investiga

It took a couple of rounds of discussion, but in the end the Sundre Golf Course was selected from a list of nine courses within Mountain View County as the venue for the annual Central Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties Zone Golf

Mountain View County council last week gave the green light for a pair of three-lot subdivisions that will face each other across Twp. Rd. 304 just west of Highway 2A, about half a mile north of Carstairs in Div. 1.

A single-lane design to replace the Big Prairie Bridge will be presented at a public meeting this Thursday, Mountain View County council voted last week after a community rep weighed in on the question.

The massive Shell Caroline Gas Complex north of Sundre is scheduled to restart operations this week after being shut down since late October due to a number of mechanical breakdowns, says company spokesperson Alice Murray.

Mountain View and Red Deer counties are taking steps to avoid a repeat of problems that plagued the first phase of a regional wastewater line project, Reeve Paddy Munro said last week.

Red Deer County non-profits have a few weeks left to apply for funding from the region's Family and Community Support Services or wait another three years before the opportunity arises again under a new model aimed to help groups better plan for the

In 1944, when Nick Nicholson decided he was going to work instead of go back to school, he spent the summer on a neighbour's farm and earned himself a plow to help start his own farming career.

Mountain View County council has started the process to have railway crossing lights installed on Twp. Rd. 324 south of Olds.

Red Deer Catholic Schools recently approved a recommendation to allow students in Grade 6 and higher to use personal wireless devices at school through the division's wireless network.