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Central Alberta hog farmers are being urged to step-up “biosecurity” measures after pigs at an Alberta farm came down with the same virus that sickened people around the world.

Hwy 2 traffic southbound backs up as northbound traffic passes the scene after a car rolled over on northbound Hwy 2 around 11:15 a.m. Friday.

A worker at IP Fabrications Ltd. died in a Calgary hospital on Wednesday after a workplace accident on Tuesday afternoon.

A two-day RCMP speeding crackdown on Hwy 2 nabbed more than 300 lead-footed drivers this week.

The Alberta government’s health-care meddling has left the province more vulnerable to outbreaks such as swine flu, said Liberal Leader David Swann in Red Deer Thursday.

Swine flu by any other name is still a human disease and not a meat or a food safety issue, say people working in and with Alberta’s pork industry.

Veteran Canadian CASCAR driver Kelly Williams, right, shares a laugh with Lorraine McGill of Sylvan Lake as she checks the oil in her vehicle at OK Tire and Auto Service in Sylvan Lake Thursday evening.

Alexander Katyshev, six, of Red Deer gets a feel for what it would be like to be a firefighter in the days of horse-drawn wagons as he climbs aboard the Ghosts sculpture titled Sound the Alarm. The life-size sculpture, featuring two horses and their handlers by artist Robert Spaith, stands outside the Red Deer Public Library.

Caught between seasons, this gull walks along the edge of the last stubborn piece of ice on Bower Ponds looking for a meal. The ice on the ponds should be just a memory soon with temperatures for the rest of the week climbing into the mid-teens with mostly sunny skies.

Police and wildlife officers are investigating the shooting deaths on Tuesday of three wild horses near the Red Deer River Ranger Station, about 40 km southwest of Sundre.