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Students and staff of the Alix-MAC School banded together recently to raise $23,515.05 for the Ronald McDonald House in Red Deer. The K-12 school has 210 students, making the fundraiser a mammoth success for such a small school population. Showing the results of the fundraiser here are students council members and teacher advisors Helen Olson, left, Demi Love, Leland Pall and Eleanor Henderson.

A 48-year-old Cremona-area man is in police custody after a tow-truck driver was struck by a motorist, who later left the scene by hitchhiking.

The pre-school Sea Turtles program, which runs twice a week at the Recreation Centre pool, provides an introduction to having fun in the water.

Blake Cook of Clive works on a vertical fillet weld during the Regional Skills Competition at Red Deer College on Thursday.

Stephanie Streibel sings a song during the 2010 Thurber Idol Search at the Memorial Centre,

The United Way of Central Alberta announced Thursday it will invest more than $1.5 million into area communities this year.

A funeral is being held today in Rimbey for the teenager who collapsed on Monday during football practice, suffering from a heart attack related to extremely high cholesterol.

Terrible road conditions, a temporary Hwy 2 road closure and tow advisories were the order of the day as a spring snowstorm on Thursday nailed Central Alberta, mainly to the south of Red Deer.

Slick roads and white-out conditions are causing havoc for Hwy 2 travellers between Red Deer and Didsbury, says an Innisfail RCMP highway patrol officer.

A judge told two lawyers they need to do more homework before he sentences a man who masterminded a cheque-writing scam using dupes to defraud scores of businesses in Central Alberta.