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Red Deer’s transit system is costly and inefficient, suggested a city councillor during budget talks on Friday.

A former member of Canada’s disbanded airborne regiment testified on Friday that fear drove him to punch a man in the face while holding a military knife.

Red Deer Regional Airport will have to wait to see if the City of Red Deer will provide $750,000 for de-icing equipment.The city was presented with the funding request during budget talks on Friday.

Motorists try to get a minivan back onto northbound Hwy 2 after it hit the ditch behind a jackknifing semi and trailer Saturday.

As many as 23 per cent of baby boomers are unable to name any of the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.That’s a troubling statistic for the national Alzheimer Society, who sponsored the online survey.

Neil McKnight first learned to sashay, twirl and do-si-do his way around a dance floor more than 60 years ago.Now the 80-year-old from Spruce View spends the majority of his week teaching and guiding others through the same steps that he learned as a 14-year-old.

A Social Master Plan needs to be done to help the City of Red Deer focus on what it should do specifically to address social issues like addictions, says a city official.

There’s busy — then there’s crazy busy at bottle recycling depots. And the days between Christmas and a few days after Jan. 1 are always the latter.On Jan. 3, the first day South Hill Bottle Depot was open after New Year’s, a total of 305 people dropped off bottles, cans, jugs, cartons and some containers.

Yel Mathiang was 17 when he escaped from Sudan in 2001, finding himself virtually alone in a cold and mysterious city, in a nation of strangers.Ten years later, he’s a confident young adult, playing defence on a fledgling soccer team set up in the spring of 2009 especially to help players from all over the world find their place in the community.They play to win.

An eight-day operation to remove packed snow on some city streets begins at 7 a.m. on Sunday.