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A meeting in Red Deer on Wednesday will offer a presentation on a new gas-fired facility recently built to meet growing demand for power in Southern Alberta.

Sixteen people are battling for the eight seats on Red Deer city council.

Country music and social media are among the tools that candidates are bringing to the fight to become the first mayor elected to the City of Lacombe.

Spectators join the Red Deer Aboriginal Dance Troupe in a round dance in the Alexander Way fountain Saturday.

There will be a race for the mayor’s chair in Red Deer.

Monte Carlo evening The Rotary Club of Red Deer Sunrise will present the seventh annual Evening in Monte Carlo dinner on Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Capri Trade, Hotel and Convention Centre in Red Deer.

One-year-old Kaynin Lund and his mother Kristie delight in seeing Charlie the porcupine at the Kweery Wood Nature Centre Saturday.

A group sporting red bras fashioned into hats takes part in the Red Hat Ladies’ hat parade at the Capri Centre on Sunday. About 300 members of the group plus their guests took part in the Red Hat and Crown Jewels event hosted by Popovich Patio Dinner Theatre.

There are signs the federal government may be stepping back from a deadline for infrastructure stimulus funding.That is good news for Clearwater County, whose contractors have been battling nasty fall weather while trying to get a major Sunchild Road paving project completed before frost shuts down construction.

The cap on the number of people Alberta can nominate to become permanent residents has been raised as the demand by employers and temporary foreign workers remains strong.