Local News

Sparks erupt from a parking meter post as Public Works welder Jim Bates cuts the top off with an acetylene torch Tuesday. The post on 49th Street in front of the Millennium Centre needed to be lower in height and a new parking meter head installed.

Few things say ‘Christmas’ like snow covered homes adorned with twinkling coloured lights.

Bashaw owes its name, in a roundabout way, to a bad poker hand.

A Central Alberta man has been sentenced to a federal jail term for prolonged sexual assaults against his three daughters.

After 25 years of working at a financial institution, Dallas Jones decided to switch gears at age 45.

Lynne Paradis paints a bleak picture of the conditions students learn under in Belize.

A large quantity of marijuana was seized and a 22-year-old Red Deer man arrested at a police Checkstop in the city on Saturday night.

A group of Masters level speedskaters make their way around the Central Lions Speedskating oval at the Golden Circle on Monday night.

For the first time ever, parking violators will be charged for towing in Red Deer. Drivers will have to pay $70 to the City of Red Deer if their vehicle is towed, on top of their parking ticket.

Red Deer police are working to track down a group of people who are alleged to have stolen a shopping cart full of items from a south-end store.