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Red Deer City RCMP have issued a warrant for Stephen Taylor, 44, of no fixed address, in relation to two robberies April 9.

As part of the their social studies curriculum, 10 Grade 6 classes, about 230 students, took part in Cultural Diversity Day. The day raised the student’s awareness of cultural diversity, and some of the classes also focused their attention on individual diversity. Here Sarah Schultz, left, and Amanda Acorn, were challenged to come up with an innovative method of crossing a room.

Some Inglewood residents voiced frustration at a public meeting on Wednesday night about the police’s inability to shut down a suspected drug house near a recent murder scene in their neighbourhood.

Charges have been laid against a man accused of lifting the dress of a five-year-old girl outside a Calgary townhouse.

Spring Run Off is a 2008 pastel by Judith Martin that’s part of the Art of Nature show Metamorphosis. Her works join those of 20 other artists in a variety of media currently on display in the Marjorie Wood Gallery of the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

A judge has ordered a psychiatric assessment for a man accused of abducting a teenage girl in central Alberta.

Peter Collinge says he has been a Calgary Flames fan ever since the team came to Calgary from Atlanta. In addition to the large flag which he draped over the back of his vehicle once the regular season was completed, he also has had a small Flames flag on his antenna and a Flames emblem on his trailer hitch, kept on display during the entire regular season. The Flames begin their quest for Lord Stanley’s Cup on Thursday in Chicago.

A “disgraced and humiliated” former Catholic school teacher was handed a conditional discharge Tuesday after pleading guilty to a single count of sexual assault against five young girls.

Red Deer Food Bank served a whopping 64 per cent more people in March than the same month in 2008.

A black-capped chickadee readies a nest by excavating a hole inside a dead tree along a trail near Great Chief Park. While chickadees are known to nest in old woodpecker holes, they can also make their own holes in rotting trees, carefully dumping the wood chips away from their nesting site to avoid attracting predators.