The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is hoping to educate residents about the new winter maintenance plan that starts when winter hits this year. Road plowing and other maintenance changes will affect many residents as the municipality switches to a rotating plowing schedule instead of what was previously used. On specific days street parking will…
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A bomb scare t Fort MacMurray International Airport late last year has resulted in a guilty plea. On December 19 of 2014 Luke Penner was in the airport walking towards Gate 1 and talking on his cell phone when an airport attendant overheard him say “I could have a bomb in my shoes, I could…
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44 year old Fort MacMurray resident Joseph Preshyonhas been sentenced to jail time for a bar fight that ended with one man suffering serious lacerations to the head after being assaulted with a weapon, a beer mug. Preshyon was charged with assault with a weapon, and he entered a guilty plea in Fort MacMurray Provincial…
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The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has taken over the transit services in the area. Municipal staff are hoping that people who use the transit services did not notice anything different, and that the transition will continue to go smoothly and without any problems. Control of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo transit services was…
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An off leash Thickewood dog park has been temporarily closed by municipal authorities after it was discovered that one of the four legged visitors was diagnosed with the highly contagious canine parvovirus. RMWB animal control supervisor Jeff Simpkins explained that municipality officials became aware of the canine parvovirus infection last Thursday, and the park was…
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The Fort MacMurray Provincial Court has sentenced a man who was busted for impaired driving three times. 39 year old James Louie McDonald entered a guilty plea to multiple impaired driving incidents, which included impaired driving and also blood alcohol over the legal limit, as well as one charge of assaulting a cab driver. McDonald…
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