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Fort Macleod celebrated Natasha Hurlburt and the Alberta independent film industry Saturday at the Empress Theatre. The Empress Theatre hosted the screening of three short films including Main-ers, written by and starring Hurlburt, who drew from her youth in Fort Macleod for inspiration. “The film industry is taking off — it keeps on growing in…Continue Reading

What if you showed up for an Alberta wildfire and your water source was frozen over? That was just one…Continue Reading

YVONNE MEDEMA, GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR The Fort Macleod Curling Club held its spring annual general meeting on Friday. At this event, president Sherri Zoeteman introduced the club’s newest life member, Cathy Park.  Park started curling in 1966 in the F.P. Walshe high school league. She remembers having to beat Doug Chilton’s team for the high school…Continue Reading

The significance of a late-winter’s visit to the legislature lives on for its Indigenous participants, officially honoured for spreading their…Continue Reading

The province is stepping up its defences to keep Alberta free of zebra and quagga mussels. The province is increasing…Continue Reading

The Mountain Bluebird Trails Conservation Society is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Mountain bluebird conservation in southern Alberta was…Continue Reading

Innovations that prepare Alberta to attack wildfires sooner, more efficiently and more effectively are baked into an updated approach after…Continue Reading

Agricultural societies boast “an established history as the heart of Alberta’s rural communities” and the province wants to keep them…Continue Reading

Livingstone Range School Division last week named Susan Stacheruk assistant principal of F.P. Walshe school in Fort Macleod beginning in…Continue Reading