At age 63, Lydia Dinsmore-Yeatman will be the oldest student wearing a cap and gown at Ponoka Outreach School’s graduation ceremony today.
Red Deer will lead the way with a three-year, $1.3-million pilot project to reach youth at risk of getting involved in crime in Alberta.
The superintendent of Wild Rose Public Schools is optimistic that students will return to Condor School by Wednesday.
Jean Nichols transplants bergamot, a plant commonly known as bee balm, in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre’s wildflower garden last week. She and other volunteers routinely tend the garden and the week’s rainfall made the job of digging up and re-rooting plants in sodden soil all the easier.
The 4-H Coal Trail Riders celebrate an achievement day on June 19 at the Delburne Arena.
Sage Nielsen, 2, gave up using a spoon to eat his bubble gum ice cream outside the Big Moo in Sylvan Lake Sunday afternoon. The temperature reached the high 20s over the weekend.
A landslide in southern British Columbia that struck several homes with a massive wall of mud, rocks and debris does not appear to have claimed any lives, officials confirmed late Sunday.
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says the federal government must produce documents on Afghan detainees, but wouldn’t indicate what he’ll do if the Tories keep dragging their feet.
Strange sounds this spring in the forest at Sunchild Reserve have some local residents baffled and a bit afraid.
Red Deer City RCMP are investigating the suspected attempted abduction of a pre-teen girl in Normandeau on Friday morning.
A fire that destroyed four homes in Sylvan Lake on May 18 was caused by embers from a fire pit, Sylvan Lake fire chief Cliff Brausen said Friday in a news release.
Penhold Day on June 12 will offer a variety of events including a pancake breakfast at the Penhold Memorial Hall
Arnold Blair of Red Deer meets with the Keister Family Fiddlers at the Golden Circle on Tuesday.
Calgary’s reining crossword queen, Gwen Sjogren, will sign copies of her latest crossword puzzle book featuring Canadian places, characters and things at the Coles in Red Deer’s Parkland Mall from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 12.
Cool, wet West Coast weather seems to be straddling the Rockies and settling over Central Alberta.
Despite a record aggregate jackpot of $70 million in the Lotto Max, few ticket-buyers at Bower Place Shopping Centre on Thursday shared visions of Scrooge McDuck or Donald Trump-type lifestyles.
Jaxson Skene, two, eagerly waits while his mother Kathy struggles to tie a balloon at Bower Place Shopping Centre Thursday.
Police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a high-profile 2009 Red Deer murder.
Red Deer City RCMP have laid 99 fraud-related charges against a Kamloops area couple following an extensive investigation into allegations surrounding trade shows.
There will be no classes at a school in central Alberta for a few days because of bacteria in the water supply.
