It was the best first day of school at OPS! What a great day seeing so many smiling faces. A big welcome to our new families!

What a fantastic first day back at New Brigden School. We kicked off the school year with a Back to School breakfast.

Oyen Family Community Support Services (OFCSS) had a fantastic day at their Annual Resource Fair on Friday, partnering with the Oyen & District Farmers Market.

What a great two days … we had our welcome breakfast for students, bus drivers and subs … Opening Mass, blessing of playground, classrooms and Grade 3 Bibles.

Effective Thursday, September 4, 2025, a Fire Restriction is in place throughout the Special Areas.

I read with great interest your report of the donation of a popcorn machine to the Oyen Museum, the donor being Eric Chrysler.

EDMONTON - From Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, your Alberta RCMP conducted enhanced traffic safety enforcement across the province, resulting in 1661 traffic safety infractions.

School is back in session, which means school zones are active once again. In many communities, these have transitioned to year-round playground zones.

RICHMOUND — RCMP arrested 16 people, including self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada” Romana Didulo, in a large-scale raid on a decommissioned school in Richmound…

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Winnipeg is playing host to this year’s Grey Cup game but for the first time in six years, the Blue Bombers likely won’t be the West Division’s representative.

Back in high school, we either thought we were cool or were desperately trying to be. In reality, we were just a bunch of insecure, awkward kids entering adulthood…

I have been driving. A lot. Last Saturday, it took me fourteen hours to drive from Cortes Island on the west coast of BC to the Okanagan, where peaches fall from the trees in the summer heat.

A farmer said, “If partially sighted people want the right to drive combines, I’m not going to stand in their way.”

President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance Nate Horner issued the following statement about contract negotiations with the TEBA and the ATA…

Premier Danielle Smith will visit Colorado to advance Alberta as an energy partner, promote collaboration and reinforce Alberta’s role in North American energy security.

The province should protect its citizens from COVID-19 and other infectious diseases by leveraging a help-thy-neighbour morality rooted in rural Alberta, the NDP’s health critic says.

On September 3, 2025, at approximately 4:30 a.m., the Saskatchewan RCMP executed a search warrant at a privately owned, decommissioned school in Richmound, Saskatchewan…

Hello, everyone. It’s that time of year again, the harvesters are going steady, and the combine dust is in the air. The canning season has begun as the vegetables…

The first Kindergarten Class at New Brigden, Alberta 1983.

Three student groups from Prairie Crocus Region participated in CFSEA’s Youth in Philanthropy program, collectively granting $5,400 to charitable organizations…

Twenty-four graziers from down under have spent the past 3 weeks meeting with producers and industry across western Canada.

Dunmore, AB - At a special public meeting held on August 25, 2025, the Prairie Rose Public Schools (PRPS) Board of Trustees approved wage and benefit increases…

The first eight months of 2025 have been the most trying times I have ever lived. So many people in my circle of friends have had issues.

This week’s new books include Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros in adult fiction, Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds…

ADULT FICTION: The Dire Deeds of Doctor Gargo / by: Steve Behlin. YOUNG ADULT FICTION: The First to Die at the End / by: Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End / by: Adam Silvera.

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The 2025 National Football League season starts this week, so it’s the perfect time for a few recollections and some look-aheads.