Local News

Brick and mortar at the Shoppers Drug Mart in Lacombe proved too much for a would-be thief who tried to ram through the front of the store early Tuesday morning.

Red Deer Emergency Services were called to Chiles Industrial Park about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday because of an industrial accident. One person with was taken to hospital by ambulance from IP Fabrications Ltd. RCMP officers on the scene would only say it was a workplace accident and it was to be investigated by Alberta Occupational Health and Safety.

Four new Red Deer garden plot sites have been snapped up.The City of Red Deer announced on Monday that the plots in various areas of the city were sold out, but colder than normal weather means they won’t be ready for planting until May 19.

Two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Alberta.

The final phase of the neighbourhood of Westlake is expected to get underway soon.On Monday, city’s municipal planning commission approved the development of lots for 28 detached homes and 44 duplexes.

Alberta’s agricultural industry is much closer to having a new building in Ponoka for hosting shows, sales and events.

Entertainer Carisa Hendrix performs her fire-eating act for the crowd at the Ponoka Trade Fair Saturday. She also entertained the crowd by swinging her chains of fire.

Employees with Concreate USL work to install a barrier between the one remaining traffic lane and the two lanes of the 49th Avenue bridge across the Red Deer River on Monday. Scheduled work on the bridge deck will see a constriction of traffic until Sept. 8 while the workers replace the concrete bridge deck.

A murder preliminary hearing for two men started well enough Monday before it took a strange twist for one of them.

A man died in a single-vehicle collision near Nordegg on Sunday after his truck went off the road and struck some trees.