Wetaskiwin News

When is comes to emergency medical services personnel, Wetaskiwin - and more specific - Peace Hills Emergency Medical Services Ltd.

A Wetaskiwin church used a sizzling event to help raise funds for its youths as well as a project designed to help those living in poverty in Edmonton.

It's been more than a month since Curtis McConnell sat in a Wetaskiwin, Alta., courtroom shaking his head as a judge declared his estranged wife Allyson McConnell guilty of manslaughter --not second-degree murder -- in the drowning deaths of their two young boys.

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

The Festival of Stars, May 18 to 20 at the Bashaw Agricultural grounds pavilion, featured more than 40 groups performing country classics, bluegrass and gospel music.

First you have to invited by one of your friends, or relatives, or you have to pick a date, arrange for a baby-sitter, prepare some snacks, clean your house spotless - the list goes on and on.

Despite more compliance, officers were kept busy during the Victoria Day long weekend as campers and recreationalists flocked to Central Alberta's West Country.

RCMP are searching for two boaters who have gone missing in the area of Coal Lake in the County of Wetaskiwin, south east of Edmonton.

He has spent most of his life playing and repairing guitars. And now Warren Fairhurst has brought his talents to Wetaskiwin with his new store, Warren's Music.

The consumat collector and preserver of Alberta's history was honoured at a special memorial service May 12 at the very museum he founded.

The 2012 graduates of the practical nursing program at the Norquest College Wetaskiwin Campus marked the end of their instruction and beginning of their careers as nurses with a special graduation ceremony May 11 at the college.

It will be another few weeks before the Millet mother accused of killing her children will find out how much, if any, jail time she will receive.

The most recent was a pair of Better Newspapers Competition awards from the Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association, which held its conference in Calgary earlier this month.

Wetaskiwin AB - A milestone event took place in Downtown Wetaskiwin last Saturday night, May 5th: The James Theatre was born, risen from the eternal slumber of an old theatre.

RCMP Cst. Todd Abram and his partner, drug sniffing dog Atos, patrol the area outside the departures area as part of Olympic security at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday February 4, 2010.

The Crown is seeking a 12-year sentence for an Australian woman living in Alberta who drowned her two young sons in the family bathtub.

Sobs filled a Wetaskiwin courtroom Wednesday as victim impact statements written by the grandparents of two slain children were read aloud.

Sobs filled a Wetaskiwin courtroom Wednesday as victim impact statements written by the grandparents of two slain children were read aloud.

Over the past couple of weeks, my "retired" husband and I have been north to Edmonton, south to Red Deer, west to Drayton Valley, and east to Camrose for different reasons.

Artist's sketch of Allyson McConnell on trial in Wetaskiwin, March 19, 2012, for the murder of her two children at her home in Millet.