Local News

Mountain View County councillors have instructed administration to set up an open house in the near future to gauge public views on a possible upgraded flood protection berm system on the Red Deer River west of Sundre.

Mountain View councillors have passed a motion directing administration to provide an update on what fees the county is receiving for oil and gas drilling in the county.

The cost to clean up and remediate the area impacted by an oil leak near Sundre in June was estimated at $53-million in a quarterly report released by Plains All American Pipeline.

Tom McCordic, chief flight instructor at the recently opened Calgary Flight Training Centre (CFTC) at the Olds-Didsbury airport, says he likes nothing better than sharing his love of flying with new pilots.

A report detailing the water quality of the Red Deer River watershed has found that while there is adequate data to measure water quality at some points in the river, other points need more information for conclusions to be drawn.

The provincial government has ponied-up the last bit of funding needed to complete the new sewer line that will extend from Bowden to Olds.

Two months after the Plains Midstream pipeline break poured hundreds of thousands of litres of light sour crude into the Red Deer River, impacting wildlife from near Sundre all the way to Glennifer Lake, the Medicine River Wildlife Centre is finally

Military investigators are trying to determine whether glider operators followed proper protocols during a violent rain and windstorm last week at the Netook Gliding Centre that overturned and damaged at two craft and left three people injured.

Inspectors in Red Deer and Mountain View Counties are on the lookout for clubroot, a soil-borne disease that affects cruciferous crops such as canola, mustard and some vegetables, say officials.

A catch-and-release only restriction has been placed on the Red Deer River and its tributaries from upstream of the Dickson Dam all the way to the Banff National Park boundary as a result of the oil leaked into the river in June.