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Wild Rose Public School Division has confirmed one case of Influenza H1N1 at a school in the division.

Associated Grocers AG Foods store owner Ernie Leibel, left, and AG sales representative Barry Thiessen congratulate Pat Duperron of Red Deer after she was chosen as the winner of an all expenses trip for two to Chianti, Italy. The grand prize in the Associated Foods Great Grocery Give-A-Way contest is valued at $12,000.

The downtown street nurse program in Red Deer could continue until at least 2012.

Rocky RCMP are seeking public help in locating four firearms stolen from a house east of Rocky Mountain House on Thursday in a break in during broad daylight.

Ryan Ziegler is so engrossed in his work, raking the Black Knight Inn’s lawn that he misses a deer doe passing behind him on Thursday. After making its way along 31st Street from Kin Kanyon, the doe went through the hotel’s parking lot and then crossed Gaetz Avenue – all without incident.

A young boy’s drowning death at an Olds pool three years ago has prompted a judicial recommendation for provincial pool standards, a fatality inquiry report released on Thursday says.

Red Deer RCMP officers opened fire after a man they were trying to arrest tried to run them down in a pickup early Thursday morning in the city’s north end.

Country music fans hold onto your hats.

Red Deer Express writer and Canada’s Worst Handyman 4 participant Johnnie Bachusky strikes a pose at the premier party and Habitat For Humanity fundraiser, at the Boston Pizza South recently. He was one of five participants chosen from across Canada to compete in the reality TV program which airs on Discovery Channel. The winner will be announced on June 15, and Bachusky hopes to be the first Western Canadian participant to win.

At the start of each day, Red Deer Emergency Services personnel do a check of all the equipment that could potentially come into use. Here, Carlos Casado, left, and Greg Adair check out a backpack that contains about 300 metres of hose used to reach remote areas during a brush or grass fire.