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Snowmobilers, riding along the Red Deer River, West of Big Valley, found an abandoned truck with a dead body nearby on Jan. 30 at 7:40 p.m., according to Stettler RCMP.

Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held Feb. 2 and 16. Phone 403-742-4273.

A Red Deer man faces multiple charges after allegedly stealing a semi truck and leading police on a short chase near Grande Prairie.

Dance the night away and help support troops who have served in Afghanistan.

It’s a mother’s worst nightmare, her child is expected home and then doesn’t arrive.Last Thursday night it happened to Red Deer mother Shauna Bossert, who was waiting for her 14-year-old son Braidyn to come home.

Environmentalists and opposition politicians are dismissing the Conservative government’s latest pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with one group predicting they’ll actually increase under a new agreement hammered out last year.

Family Day in Blackfalds kicks off with a four-on-four pond hockey challenge at 9 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 15. The town’s community services department will include the game as part of its third-annual Winterfest, which has been moved to All-Star Park

Canine cops trained through the Police Dog Training Centre near Innisfail will be on duty at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

A Red Deer College student, at right, takes a cellphone call as he and his kinesiology classmates begin a cross country ski trip through Heritage Ranch Thursday. The class outing was part of its studies on metabolic conditioning.

The City of Red Deer collected $450,000 less in speeding tickets in 2009 partly because some drivers are neglecting to pay fines.