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Cody Bourhis, right, and Mitch Townsend carry a Christmas tree to a waiting vehicle for customers Steven Bachert and his daughter Avery in Red Deer Saturday afternoon. For about 35 years, Joe Butterfield has operated a Christmas tree lot in Red Deer. This year he has shipped in 700 Fraser and Balsam fir trees from Quebec for the season.

Suspect allegedly posted victim’s information on online predator website.

Dolly Metchooyeah of Assumption, Alberta looks on as Janis Brown of the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter (CAWES) wraps her Christmas gifts at Bower Place Shopping Centre on Friday afternoon. Metchooyeah made the 12-hour road trip from the northern Alberta town to do some Christmas shopping and pay a visit to her daughter in Sylvan Lake this week. Volunteers from CAWES will be at the mall until Christmas Eve taking donations and wrapping gifts at their booth.

Although Central Alberta has been plunged into brutally cold arctic weather, some people still find a way to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Here a cross country skier makes his way through Heritage Ranch on Friday afternoon. Volunteer track-setters have worked hard to take what little snow has fallen in the area and set ski tracks from Great Chief Park to Heritage Ranch.

The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs have a chance to make history on Dec. 26.

Lindsay Thurber High School Chamber Choir performs at Red Deer College.

A man arrested and charged in connection with a decade-old murder case in Eckville will stand trial

Three men arrested in November 2015 drug bust are close to resolving their charges

The lawyer for a man charged with second-degree murder just got more disclosure from police.

The Central Alberta Refugee Effort Immigrant Centre held its annual Let it Snow Carnival at Central Middle School on Saturday.