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Celtic music fans can handle the rain, organizers learned during the annual Water Valley Traditional Celtic Folk Music Festival on June 23.

The first road signs targeting drunk drivers from a new traffic safety initiative have been installed in Mountain View County.

A dispute between Mountain View County and its urban neighbours over the proposed new Municipal Development Plan was averted after last-minute negotiations.

The oil spill is contained and cleanup efforts continue in the aftermath of a leak that caused between 1,000 and 3,000 barrels of light sour crude oil to flow into the Red Deer River near Sundre.The leak was detected in the evening of June 7.

The municipal planning commission approved a height relaxation from 7 to 7.3 metres for a building west of the City of Red Deer during a meeting June 5, despite protests from neighbours that the building would be “too enormous.

When Jo Turley was growing up in rural Quebec she found a young falcon. It ignited a keen interest in the sport of falconry, the art form of hunting with or training birds of prey.In 1999 she joined the Alberta Falconry Club.

Grant money keeps raining for Olds College research projects, as the college recently announced it had received a $799,991 grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to finish constructing the wetlands and to install water recirculation pumps

Chinook's Edge School Division is projecting a $1.1 million deficit in 2012-13 after the board passed the preliminary budget last week.The deficit will be covered through reserves.‘I'm quite pleased with the budget.

Pull quote:New federal funding aimed at helping increase palliative care services available at the community level is good news, say West Central Alberta palliative care and hospice caregivers.

Rainy, stormy weather last week continued to cause havoc in the region although overland flooding had dissipated.