Ponoka News

Police responded to a complaint at a downtown bar May 19 at 4:30 p.m. of a native male with a Mohawk and pink tape on his head, who was threatening to kill a customer.

Months after he abducted and tried to extort money from a successful Alberta businessman, Larry McClelland has been sentenced to ten years in prison.

Treasure has always been a word to stir the imagination of striking it rich and living on a secluded island in the Caribbean; people often live vicariously through shows such as A&E's Storage Wars or History Channel's Pawn Stars to see what pecuniary value those treasures hold.

Fran How celebrated her birthday with her son, daughter-in-law and other family members, who'd come from Canberra, Australia.

The two-day course, available only to females ages 13 and up, will be taught by certified RAD instructors and is free of charge to all registrants.

It's good to be back in the office after spending better than two weeks with my own personal version of Planes, Trains and Automobiles as I sallied between provinces and newspaper conventions.

After years spent living in New Zealand, Mexico and Victoria, B.C., Danny Lineham and his wife, Mary MacArthur, recently moved to Ponoka where they now own and operate the Siding 14 Gallery.

Photo by Francois Biber On May 26, Curtis Anderson will hold the eighth annual Courage Canada Trail Ride from his home in Minburn.

In February 2011, Valerie Wolski, a counsellor who worked for the Canadian Mental Health Association, was found dead in the home where she cared for a young man with profound developmental disabilities named Terrance Saddleback.

Workers place a "skimmer" in a wetland to remove crude oil at the site of an oil spill from a pipeline breach in northern Alberta near the community of Little Buffalo, in May, 2011.

Police responded to an alarm at the old general hospital May 3 at 3:30 a.m. There were several small fires to pieces of furniture throughout the building.

The Ponoka Farmers' Market was once again in full swing as vendors and shoppers occupied the Ponoka Culture and Recreation Complex on May 2. It was the market's first official opening of the season, despite being hosted a week earlier in conjunction with the Ponoka Trade Fair.

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The announcement several years ago of a modernization project affecting Wolf Creek schools in Ponoka left many parents and community members with unanswered questions.

A 15-year-old youth was riding his skateboard in a parking lot along Highway 2A when a black Dodge pickup with a white horizontal stripe on the doors pulled up.

Shown here is an authentic model of one of the earliest farm homesteads out in the west Ponoka district, built in 1900 by S.L. Carson, then later occupied for many decades by the families of Louis and Alice Flemming, and in 1960 by Carl and Rosella Stuart.

As pesky pigeons continue to leave their droppings at the Sorensen Station Parkade, a Calgary-based pest control company keeps the ongoing pigeon poop problem at bay.