Stettler News

Environment Canada has issued a tornado watch for the Red Deer area, including Ponoka, Innisfail, and Stettler.

On a Monday morning, it's hard to find parking on Vegreville's main street. For years, downtown struggled.

Donalda may have lost its grain elevators, antique mall and a tourist-drawing restaurant - but it still has its art.

Farmer Roy Eckert checks the sparse, stunted grasses in a drought-stricken field that has not yet been grazed by his cattle.

After 27 and a half years on the force, Sgt. Dave Neigum of the Vermilion RCMP detachment hung up his Mountie hat on June 22.

This year's dry conditions have many making comparisons to the disastrous summer of 2002.

First it was frost at the beginning of June and now rainfalls are few and far between leaving crops and pastures of Central Alberta in poor condition.

A moisture map shown to Lacombe County councillors told the grim tale. Vast swaths of Central Alberta were coloured red or orange, indicating areas where little or no rain has fallen this spring.

Fathers are invited to rumble down the highway through rural areas in support of prostate cancer research.

BRIAN VOSSEN/SUN MEDIACyclists taking part in Saturday s half of the MS Bike Tour.

Six Central Alberta communities are in line for nearly $4.8 million in affordable housing cash this year as part of a $278 million provincial government commitment.

A Washington County sewer utility found a way to get rid of some of its most troublesome pollutants: sell them to gardeners.

A central Alberta farmer accused of chasing an alleged thief off his land and shooting him as he ran away has chosen a trial by judge and jury.

Libraries, roads and water works are among the projects to be supported by new and revised funding programs announced by the federal and provincial governments on Thursday.

Life is a constant series of events and experiences, with the eventual outcome being a net increase in knowledge.

Alberta Friends of Medicare is warning that a plan exists to downgrade 10 Central Alberta hospitals by eliminating their ability to provide emergency care.

Knowing the province is always keen to borrow imagery from far-off lands , someone unearthed this fantastic video for Capital Notebook HQ.

As zone director of ABP, I very seriously struggle with replying to Drumheller-Stettler MLA Jack Haydena s comments regarding bringing choice to beef producers within the province.

After being kept out of their fields by lingering cool weather, Central Alberta farmers are making up for lost time.

ALBERTA WOMEN'S INSTITUTE NEWS Submitted by Alice Lowis The joint conference of Ohaton/Stettler Constituencies was held at Round Hill on April 18, with a good attendance from all parts of these constituencies.