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Red Deer City RCMP arrested a man today in connection with the theft of a Michael Godard print worth $1,700.

A five-vehicle collision north of Rocky Mountain House sent two men to hospital with serious injuries on Tuesday morning.

A monumental pair of hockey skates — nearly five metres high — by two Central Albertan artists won top prize at the Winterlude National Snow Sculpture Competition in Gatineau, Que., this past weekend.

A special evening with the “rock star of the art world,” Michael Godard, will take place on March 4 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Editions Gallery at Bower Place Shopping Centre.

A Red Deer fire-medic says in his estimation, the worst is just beginning for Haiti.

Lacombe Hospital Auxiliary holds general meetings the third Wednesday of every month — next on Feb. 17 — at 7:30 p.m. at the hospital. Volunteers welcome. Contact Dawn at 782-3137, or Robin at 782-0501.

Left to right, Natalie and Callista Smith, and Kelly Stephenson of Red Deer found no warmth from their paper Olympic torches, so they huddled around one of the large fire pits at the Bower Ponds Winterfest on Saturday. Quite possibly the chilly conditions and the Winter Olympics on TV contributed to the reduced attendance at this years event.

Nearly 1,000 people wandered in to view the complete makeover of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on Monday.

A person’s ability to make a house a home could be a key indicator of that person’s value as a future mate.

Blackfalds got the weather. Sylvan Lake got the peopleIt seems perfectly normal, in Alberta’s northern climes, for people to head south, seeking relief from winter temperatures.