Wetaskiwin News

If it was adopted by city council today, a proposed land use bylaw could result in sweeping changes for the city of Wetaskiwin and its residents.

Wetaskiwin may have been given the dubious honour of being the Crime capital of Alberta, but it doesn't accurately reflect the latest statistics on crime within the community.

Central Alberta dealers Martin Equipment Ltd. and Deerline Sales Ltd. have announced a merger, which was effective Dec.

When Alberta's health and wellness minister announced he would be visiting areas throughout the province, Wetaskiwin's MLA was on board immediately.

After being named the crime capital of Alberta earlier this year, there's more than a good chance Wetaskiwin will shed that unwanted title next year.

So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun.

The blueprints have been drawn up, now all the Wetaskiwin Agriculture Society needs to decide what direction, and how big, it wants in regards to improvements.

The title of his debut CD, Visions from the Farm, may be considered a little ironic, but Karl Schwonik wouldn't have it any other way.

For another year, the Wetaskiwin location is offering its customers a 24-seven shopping experience right up to closing time on Christmas eve.

Wetaskiwin First United Church was burned to the ground Oct. 13. For hundreds of churchgoers in Wetaskiwin, this Christmas is a time of questions, anger and emotion, after fires destroyed two churches in the community 70 kilometres south of Edmonton.

EDMONTON a ' A man accused of setting a fire at an abandoned seniors home in Wetaskiwin has turned himself in to RCMP.

At the mercy of Mother Nature and the winter elements, 29-year-old Edmonton man is lucky to be alive after hitching a ride on a freight train in frigid temperatures.

Constables Jeffrey Czarnecki and John Hubbard don't consider themselves guardian angels.

A month-long investigation has resulted in the recovery of almost three kilograms of marijuana and a Wetaskiwin man facing several charges.

RCMP are looking for a man wanted in connection with an arson last month in Wetaskiwin.

As Jonathan Hambler clung with his bare hands to the freezing metal of a freight train that was barrelling into the unknown darkness of a frigid prairie night, it occurred to him he'd made one pretty big mistake.

Hey all you cool cats, are you hip to the new jive? A pair of Wetaskiwin residents have started a new publication, designed to give artists a chance to have their poetry, and other written works published, you dig? It's name a ' Wonk a ' is far out man, and is the brainchild of Lucas and Amber Warren and stately/plump Publishing .

While he's no Saint Nick, Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins arrived at city council to spread cheer in the form of one million dollars in federal grant money.

CP railway police service have charged Jonathan George Hambler with trespassing in connection with a weekend incident where a man hitched a ride on a slow-moving train and nearly froze to death.

A 29-year-old man narrowly escaped freezing to death after illegally hitching a ride on a Wetaskiwin train.