Ponoka News

A motorcycle caught speeding with another bike on Highway 2 north of Calgary accelerated to 180 km/h while allegedly evading an Airdrie traffic officer who was attempting to pull over both vehicles.

A 25-year-old Red Deer woman was killed on Saturday when she was thrown from a vehicle that rolled on the QEII Highway near Ponoka.

Some stampede contestants at the Ponoka Stampede in Alberta watch the action while waiting their turn to compete: of course, fit and all wearing their best "Wranglers." Select one of the options below.

Spencer West, a legless man who's walking on his hands from Edmonton to Calgary to raise money for the We Walk 4 Water campaign, arrives at Ponoka Elementary School Thursday.

Trustees with the St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic School Division have voted to reject a provincewide labour deal for teachers, joining a handful of boards and one teachers' local that are still withholding support before Monday's ratification deadline.

The blaze overnight Monday burned through a large swath of land and destroyed at least one home northeast of Hobbema.

A driver who was pursued for more than an hour by a dozen cars from four RCMP detachments and Edmonton police faces a long list of charges, including dangerous driving and fleeing police.

The list of improving high schools also includes one charter school, one private school, and eight separate schools across the province.

Doreen Sturla Scott was honoured as the Beta Sigma Phi's Lady of the Year during its annual Founder's Day banquet on Tuesday night.

Bill Bourne, Dick Damron, Amos Garrett, Captain Tractor and Randi Boulton will be in the lineup at the seventh annual Central Music Festival on Aug.