Volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of Olds set up the service organization’s Christmas Village saddlery shop in Centennial Park on Thursday. Taking advantage of snowless weather, although braving a bitter southeast wind, the group set up the village’s dozen buildings to be lit up and used during the Olds Fashioned Christmas celebration in December.
A man charged following a police bust of a suspected marijuana growing operation was fined for stealing electricity on Thursday.
The City of Red Deer will officially expand its borders by 7,410 acres after Premier Ed Stelmach’s cabinet recently approved an application to annex Red Deer County land.
The government approval is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2009.
A Red Deer man charged in a major drug bust lost one lawyer and gained another on Thursday.
A Red Deer man frustrated by a perceived lack of RCMP attention given to drug deals on his street received full attention from a top police officer on Thursday.
A 17-year-old Hobbema pedestrian has been identified as the person killed in a hit-and-run crash on Oct. 23.
Lacombe police are looking for those responsible for stealing more than a dozen flat-screen televisions from area recreational vehicle dealerships between September and Thanksgiving.
Alberta Tories will lose their bedrock rural support if they insist on pursuing its transmission line bill, predicts a member of the province’s biggest landowner group.
Plans to fix one of the more dangerous intersections left on Hwy 2 didn’t sit well with some Lacombe County residents upset a key access route to town would be cut off.
While many agreed the Duckett Road and Hwy 2 intersection just north of Lacombe was a hazard, there was less agreement about what to do about it.
Central Alberta frontline healthcare workers will have H1N1 flu clinics dedicated specifically for them inside hospitals and other facilities, says an Alberta Health Services spokeswoman.
Moving lockers, textbooks, library books and teachers will all be part of the implementation plan to turn two north side elementary schools and one middle school into three schools for kindergarten to Grade 8 students for the 2010/2011 school year.
A dispute over a new land-use bylaw in Mountain View County is heating up with a local rural association trying to rally hundreds outside county offices in Didsbury next Wednesday.
An estimated 400 senior citizens are needed for feedback on Red Deer’s existing and emerging housing needs.
Lacombe County will likely hold a second public hearing on new bylaws for RV resorts after significant changes were suggested.
Lacombe County is urging the province to continue a long-running project to maintain water levels in Gull Lake by pumping water out of Blindman River.
The public is sending clear messages over large-scale transmission projects being proposed near their rural homes across Alberta, says a speaker at the Synergy Alberta conference on Tuesday.
Mayor Morris Flewwelling will gauge the opinions of trustworthy advisors and the community-at-large before announcing whether he’ll seek a third Red Deer mayoralty term next October.
A drug investigation that resulted in a police raid on two houses in the fall of 2008 has resulted in three people being ordered to stand trial.
Emergency services stations are advising the public that 9-1-1 lines are currently down in the Three Hills and Trochu areas.
Pressure will be on delegates at Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party convention in Red Deer on Nov. 7 to halt the province’s funding cuts to health care, education and other social services.
