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Mountain View County councillors voted last week to cancel the 2011 property taxes for the owners of The Bergen Store after hearing how the couple has struggled to deal with flooding and sewage issues since buying the property in November 2007.

An Eagle Hill resident urged Mountain View County councillors last week to upgrade two intersections in the area that were deemed unsafe more than a year ago by an engineering firm.

Chinook's Edge School Division officials say they are buoyed by news that enrolment numbers have remained steady heading into the new school year.

A number of Red Deer County residents are waiting to see what council has to say about the recommendations to approve a biofuel complex in Antler Hill, north of Innisfail.

A Cremona man, a vice-president of a major western Canadian oil services company, has been denied bail on multiple charges he committed an early morning home invasion against his estranged wife and her boyfriend, who was allegedly ìpistol-whippedî in

Alberta Health Services lifted the blue-green algae advisory for Pine Lake last Thursday.

Sundre-area resident Jack Morgan got the royal treatment after he showed up at the Mountain View County building last Wednesday to pay his property taxes.

Red Deer County has been deemed eligible for disaster assistance due to a severe windstorm on July 7 that produced three tornadoes in the region.

The official tasked with ensuring Chinook's Edge School Division schools are prepared for the worst said last week's lockdown of three Innisfail schools went exactly as planned.

Whacking the fracking operations in Mountain View County for damage to roads and other county infrastructure will not be as easy as imposing a new tax on wells, council learned at last Wednesday's meeting.