News Archive

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum hosted its two-day science festival Palaeo Palooza this weekend.  Saturday was spent with carnival games, scavenger hunts, and panels of professionals at the museum. On Sunday the festivities were moved to Pipestone Creek where science talk tables were set up in the park and along the trail to the […]

The Regional EMS Foundation has donated $43,890 for specialized training equipment at the health education centre at Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP). The Emergency Medical Responder program is slated to start in January.  “We're not just funding for EMR Educational Programming Equipment; we're igniting the future of emergency medical response education in our region,” said Regional EMS […]

The Kleskun Hill Museum Day on Saturday included live music, tours of historic buildings, wagon rides, lunch and a silent auction.  The schoolhouse had former students speak about their experience  in the one-room school and even shared memories Kleskun Hill Day of days past when teachers would hand out ice cream through the school house […]

An act of vandalism at St. Mary Catholic School in Beaverlodge has caused damages totalling $100,000 after 70 windows were broken.  Beaverlodge RCMP said the vandalism is believed to have occurred between the evening of July 31 and the morning of Aug. 1. “The information gathered at this time has not led to sufficient evidence […]

What once numbered in the thousands and were described as giants, sentinels, landmarks, and iconic in prairie imagery are nearly gone.  Only a few hundred grain elevators remain in Alberta, which is why one local wants to see a unique elevator on her land preserved.  “If you look around the landscape, there's not much left […]