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Red Deer’s wastewater treatment plant has enough space to expand and meet the needs of the city and surrounding region for the next 25 years, according to a planning document approved on Monday.

After holding their first sign-up day of the year on Saturday, Red Deer BMX held a novice clinic and then an expert clinic at the BMX Track in the Great West Adventure Park.

The aerial photo tells it all: A group of starry-eyed Central Alberta band kids, their chests puffed out in pride, are marching through the streets of San Francisco.

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.