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A new way of doing policing in Red Deer is helping to improve response times to complaints.

Alberta campgrounds, both private and provincial, are preparing themselves for the opening day of camping season in this area: the May long weekend.

Operations at a hog farm near Rocky Mountain House remain in limbo since the discovery that some of its pigs had been infected with H1N1 flu.

It looks like a mix between the Batmobile and a vehicle out of a Mad Max movie.Made out of mild armour plate steel for small arms fire protection, the Screaming Eagle weighs in at around 8,000 kg (18,000 pounds) and gets around three km per litre (seven to eight miles per gallon) in the city.

Mouldly sleeping bags and other evidence of homeless people camping in the woods are turning up during the Green Deer campaign.

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.