Beyond Local

As Premier Jim Prentice dropped the writ last Tuesday, candidates hastened to open local campaign offices, talk with constituents and gear up for the election to be held on May 5.

With the deadline to vote in the Wildrose leadership race now just days away, residents of the Lakeland will be able to make an informed decision at the polls after candidates Linda Osinchuk and Drew Barnes made campaign stops in Bonnyville last week

One of the three individuals vying for Wildrose leadership made a pit stop in Bonnyville on March 7 to assure local residents there was still “a lot of life and even more fight left” in a party broken by the crossing of 9 MLAs, including longtime lea

Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw has finally announced he will not be re-running in any upcoming election, a decision he said he made after getting an inside look at how politics works.

It was a long and anxious wait for several people gathered at the St. Paul Legion on Saturday night, but seven hours after polls closed, the announcement of Darrell Younghans as the PC candidate for Lac La Biche-St.

After less than a year of official peace, Canada once again finds itself at war.

Students at the Art Smith Aviation Academy in Cold Lake had a "once-in-a-lifetime" experience last week when Governor General David Johnston stopped by, toured the school and spoke to their entire student body.

Local concerns regarding changes being made by the province to how persons with disabilities are provided support and funding were obvious at last week's meeting with Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities Frank Oberle, who stop

Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith spoke to local residents in Ardmore Tuesday night about her party's platform and vision for Alberta. See Tuesday's Nouvelle for the full story.

Elsewhere in this week's issue of the Nouvelle appears a short story on cash and oil flow coming out of energy giant Cenovus, specifically the Foster Creek project, which Cenovus operates for itself and partner ConocoPhillips.