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Tough times affect everyone. It’s how people react to the things they can’t control that determines how well they come through tough times, says Dawne Adkins, who counsels people facing economic issues.

Red Deer sex trade workers can now easily warn co-workers about violent customers by filling out an online form for Red Deer’s bad date book.

The clock has started ticking for a possible Rocky Mountain House bylaw that could foster a plebiscite calling for a return of VLTs to town.

A conference trip to Texas that saw five City of Red Deer officials attending was well worth the estimated $15,000 expense, Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling said on Thursday.

A teenage girl charged after two young males were killed in a two-vehicle crash near Sylvan Lake made her first appearance in Red Deer youth court on Thursday.

Red Deer city parks officials are still assessing damage caused when the Red Deer River jammed last month with ice.

Employees of DDS Consulting of Calgary, Mike Gulajec, Marco De Costa and Dave Legault, install a concrete cast sound barrier wall section along 32nd Street between 47th Avenue and 49th Avenue in Red Deer on Thursday morning. The wall is being constructed to create a barrier between the busy roadway that will be widened and the nearby townhouses in the area.

Eight years of work and almost $2 million have left Red Deer with a more vibrant and enjoyable downtown, says the chair of the city’s Main Street project.

A college student busted with 1.5 kg of marijuana was handed a community-based sentence on Wednesday.

Changing jobs after 40 years with the Red Deer City Archives is getting a mixed reaction from the man who helped create his own position.