Tag: Southern Alberta

  • Traffic relief for Calgary Region commuters arrives next year

    Traffic relief for Calgary Region commuters arrives next year

    Calgary Regional Partnership announces new On-It Regional Transit Service With all the welcome benefits of community growth in our region, there are bound to be challenges as well. Commuting is one of these challenges: congestion has spread over Calgary’s expanding region, and the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP) is determined to face this issue with a…

  • Wildrose Questions Omission of Pipelines, Lack of Access in Montreal Chamber of Commerce Speech

    Wildrose Questions Omission of Pipelines, Lack of Access in Montreal Chamber of Commerce Speech

      EDMONTON, AB: Premier Rachel Notley missed a golden opportunity to highlight Energy East and the importance of market access during her speech to the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. The omission comes less than a week after telling delegates at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) convention that she plans…

  • High River’s 13th Annual River City Show & Shine

    High River’s 13th Annual River City Show & Shine

    The smells were tantalizing, the weather was glorious and the moods elated during the 2015 River City 13th Annual Show & Shine held in High River, Ab on Sunday, September 27th. The turn out was fantastic with hundreds of cars lining several streets and crowds of well into the thousands filling every available space. Numerous vendors…

  • Oilfields High School: Rural Living Can Earn School Credits

    Oilfields High School: Rural Living Can Earn School Credits

      Do you work or live on an acreage, farm or ranch? The Green Certificate (GC) program is an on-farm apprenticeship-style training program aimed at high school students and adults. It is a joint venture of Alberta Agriculture and Alberta Education. There are nine ‘specialties’ in the GC program: Cow/Calf, Dairy, Equine, Feedlot, Field Crop,…

  • Government makes Changes at Senior Official Level

    Changes at the senior official level have been made in Alberta’s Public Affairs Bureau and at Innovation and Advanced Education. Mark Wells has been appointed Managing Director of the Public Affairs Bureau, effective Friday, September 25. Andy Weiler, who has served as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Affairs Bureau since January, has been appointed…

  • Vulcan RCMP – House Fire Update #1

    Vulcan RCMP – House Fire Update #1

    Vulcan, Alberta –  RCMP and fire crews entered the single family home in Vulcan yesterday. Upon searching the home, two deceased persons were located in the home.  The identity of the two deceased persons is not known at this time. The Calgary Medical Examiners office has scheduled the autopsy’s for tomorrow morning.  Provincial Fire investigators and RCMP officers remained…

  • Cochrane, AB – Semi Rollover Collision Highway 1

    Cochrane, AB – Semi Rollover Collision Highway 1

    Today, 2015-09-29, at approximately 0845 hrs, Cochrane RCMP responded to a complaint of a tractor/trailer rollover at the exit ramp from Highway 1 onto Highway 22.  EMS and Rockyview Fire also attended the scene. The tractor/trailer unit was travelling east on Highway 1 and took the exit ramp to head south onto Highway 22.  The driver…

  • Alberta RCMP River Search on the Bow and South Saskatchewan River

    Alberta RCMP River Search on the Bow and South Saskatchewan River

      Calgary, AB – The Alberta RCMP Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Unit will be conducting an aerial sweep of the Bow and Saskatchewan River, South of Calgary starting Tuesday, September 29 and Wednesday, September 30, 2015.  This operation will be coordinated with a similar process being undertaken by the Calgary Police Service within the…

  • Town of High River Constructing Natural Playground in Birchwood Park

    Town of High River Constructing Natural Playground in Birchwood Park

      HIGH RIVER, AB: The Town of High River is moving forward with the construction of an innovative natural playground in Birchwood Park this fall. It will be the first of its kind in the area and will focus on encouraging children to use imaginative and open-ended play. “Connecting kids to nature, in part by…

  • AB small business confidence plunges to record low

      Lowest registered confidence of any province in past 15 years Calgary – The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) today released the latest Business Barometer numbers showing Alberta’s small business confidence plummeted to 34.0, more than a six point decline from last month.  This marks the lowest confidence level ever registered since CFIB started keeping…

  • Meteorite disaster workshop to address issue of spontaneous volunteers

    Meteorite disaster workshop to address issue of spontaneous volunteers

      Tuesday, September 29 (9:45am to 4pm) and Wednesday, September 30 (10am to 4pm) Field House at the Bob Snodgrass Recreation Complex Volunteers being invited to add their knowledge during a meteorite disaster workshop High River, AB – High River’s Emergency Management team is continuing to show its innovation and thought leadership with an upcoming…

  • Extend Castle Consultation Process by Six Months: Stier

      FORT MACLEOD, AB: (Friday), Wildrose Municipal Affairs Shadow Minister Pat Stier called on the NDP government to extend the consultation period on the creation of a new provincial park in the Castle region by six months. The NDP provided a 30-day window for public consultation after it made the decision to re-designate the area.…

  • Road Construction on Macleod Trail between Diebert Close and 9 Street S.W.

    Road Construction on Macleod Trail between Diebert Close and 9 Street S.W.

      HIGH RIVER, AB: Crews from Shawne Excavating and Trucking Ltd. will be closing one lane of Macleod Trail S.W between Diebert Close and 9 Street S.W. on Wednesday, September 30 in order to perform a water main tie-in. Work will begin at 7 a.m. and is expected to be completed by Thursday, October 1…

  • Howie Ewashko Elected Chair of the Alberta Forest Products Association

    At its 73rd Annual General Meeting and Conference, the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA) announced that Howie Ewashko has been elected Chair of the Association’s Board of Directors. Ewashko is the President of Northland Forest Products Ltd. in Fort McMurray. The business has been in the Ewashko family for 44 years. “It is a great…

  • Millarville Community School Coach’s Corner

    Millarville Community School Coach’s Corner

      By Christine Lederer, MCS Learning Coach A Learning Coach in FSD is responsible to plan for and address learning needs of students with diagnosed learning needs. In addition, she is responsible to ensure teachers have access to supports and to ensure Individual Learning Plan goals are met within a classroom situation. At MCS, we…