Eighteen people gathered on June 6 at the Seniors Recreation Centre for the last Pot Luck and meeting prior to the fall.  Lynda had barbequed hamburgers and brought all the fixings…

Hello, everyone. It has been a little smokey for a few days, and I hope everyone stayed in doors those days. It was nice to have a taste of rain to freshen things up, but it is still very dry.

ADULT FICTION: Speak to Me of Home / by: Jeanine Cummins, A Crop Farmer’s Daughter : Based on a true story / by: Ioni Goldstein, On Isabella Street / by: Genevieve Graham…

PROVOST - On June 13, 2025, at 8:50 p.m., Provost RCMP received a report of a fire at an oil site located south of Highway 13 on Range Road 22.

Big Country Thrift Store celebrated 10 years in Oyen on June 10th, 2025. The volunteers served a total of 103 burgers, chips, drinks & cheesecake.

We have new books on the adult fiction and non-fiction shelves.  Check out My Friends by Fredrik Backman and The Crash by Freida McFadden in the fiction section.

It was a big-league baseball experience that truly was a classic. The Rural Roots Baseball Classic - an event staged by the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL)…

View photos of the Legion poster contest winners from Assumption Roman Catholic School, Oyen Public School, South Central High School, and Warren Peers School.

Right now, measles cases are rising across southern Alberta. Alberta Health Services (AHS) has advised people in the South Zone of a widespread potential exposure risk…

The RCMP’s Musical Ride, an iconic Canadian spectacle recognized at home and abroad, and a symbol of tradition, honour, and pride, will be trotting across Alberta this summer.

With summer around the corner, roadways will become increasingly busy, and your Alberta RCMP would like to remind commercial and passenger-vehicle motorists how to share…

We live in a time of complex and wicked problems: climate change, economic inequality, violent conflict and human rights violation.

DRUMHELLER - On the evening of June 11, 2025, Drumheller RCMP initiated a traffic stop with a vehicle along Highway 56 after witnessing a traffic infraction.

DRUMHELLER - Drumheller RCMP are seeking assistance from the public in locating a missing youth female. Kaya Milligan (15), a resident of Camrose…

In the last couple of weeks, Ottawa has been busy, not only with a new session, but a new parliament. The Conservative team has welcomed 44 new Members…

CASTOR - A man from Red Deer is dead after the vehicle he was driving crashed with a truck northwest of the town of Castor.

Alberta is investing more than $20 million to help Alberta’s drilling experts develop new technologies to keep responsibly powering the world.

Enjoy this week’s editorial cartoon.

Enjoy this week’s comic strips and have a laugh!

Pete Rose, a Hall of Famer? Yes or no? The late Rose, who passed away in September of 2024, is at the heart of one of baseball’s greatest debates…

Last week, I attended three graduations. And though I couldn’t be at two of them in person, I did my best to be fully present.

This week’s observations could be compared to the opening lines of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous sonnet. A revised version could read, “How do I love thee, fellow Canadians?…

Premier Danielle Smith issued the following statement in response to the new Ipsos poll’s findings…

It was nice to have a few warm and calm days in between all the windy ones. We are all still waiting for that moisture to show up.

Alberta was proud to close the London Stock Exchange on June 2, celebrating our successful €1.25B Euro bond issuance - the first Canadian province to issue in EUR this calendar year.

The Oyen Public School Kindergarten class had an exciting adventure last week when they toured the local fire station!

In May 2025, the Empress and District Historical Society unveiled the beautifully restored dray wagon which is on permanent display at the historic 1914 CPR Train Station in Empress.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Pattern Energy Lanfine Wind Scholarships.

About 50 people of all ages dropped into the Oyen FCSS Community Centre on Main Street to celebrate our seniors at a 50’s Ice Cream Parlor on June 4 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The magic of Oz came to life in Mrs. (Jill) Brown’s classroom at Oyen Public School as students took to the stage for their much-anticipated production of The Wizard of Oz.