Red Deer Polytechnic announced they received an $8 million donation, which will help educate and train more healthcare professionals.The transformational gift was donated from the estate of Rodney Ceccato to strengthen the healthcare workforce in central Alberta and across the province.The institution said $4 million w...

Maskwacis RCMP have charged two people from Ermineskin Cree Nation following an investigation into drug trafficking.Police say on Sept. 22, Maskwacis RCMP conducted a search warrant on a residence in Ermineskin Cree Nation.As a result, a 44-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were charged with three counts of traffick...

A small number of tickets remain for the 31st Annual Black Tie Bingo Gala next week.Put on by the Rotary Club of Red Deer, the Gala is set for Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Red Deer Resort & Casino.Organizers say approximately 50 tickets are still available for purchase."We're getting pretty low. We probably have ...

Didsbury RCMP is seeking public assistance in locating missing 17-year-old Aden Tekie. Aden was last seen at her home in Carstairs on Oct. 22, 2026, according to police. She is believed to be driving a red 2012 Kia Forte with Alberta license plate CZK2914. She may be in the Edmonton area.Aden is described as:Dark compl...

The Alberta Teachers' Association is pushing back following the results on questions two and four of the 2026 Alberta referendum."The challenges facing Alberta's public schools remain, and immigrant students are not the problem," says Jason Schilling, ATA president."Now is the time for the provincial gov...

A former Alberta cabinet minister says Premier Danielle Smith won't survive the crisis in her United Conservative Party amid fallout from the separation referendum. Peter Guthrie, who was removed from the UCP caucus after criticizing the government over a health-care procurement scandal, now leads the upstart Progressi...

The Insurance Bureau of Canada is reporting an estimated $1.8 billion in losses caused by storms this year across the Prairies.There were ten major events across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with estimates coming from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc."Once again, the Canadian Prairies have been hi...

More of the constitutional questions in Alberta's historic referendum have flipped to ``no'' with votes still being counted. Alberta voters went to the polls on Monday and were asked 10 different questions. The key question was on separation and roughly 75 per cent of votes backed staying in Canada, but it has taken lo...

Hockey Canada has announced the pre-tournament schedule for the upcoming 2027 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.From Dec. 17 - 23, six Alberta communities, including Cold Lake, Lloydminster, Camrose, Blackfalds, Edmonton, and Red Deer, will host 12 pre-tournament games before preliminary action commences on Dec. 26...

Red Deer Rebels forward Grayden Peterson has been on quite a tear as of late.The 17-year-old from West Fargo, North Dakota, has scored four goals in his last four games, including his first Western Hockey League goal against the Calgary Hitmen on Oct. 19.He said it felt great to finally get on the scoresheet, especiall...

The Team Jigger Para Hockey Tournament and 'Try-It' sessions are back this weekend, Oct 24-25 at Red Deer's Dawe Centre.Team Jigger is an organization founded several years ago to help those experiencing life-changing physical disabilities regain independence, confidence, and a continued quality of life.This weekend, T...

PRINCE ALBERT - The mother of one of the four Canadian soldiers killed in a fire at a military base in Alberta says his lifelong goal was to join the Forces and wear his uniform with pride. Patricia Farrell says her 23-year-old son Pte. Shaun Farrell o...

WAINWRIGHT - Four Armed Forces members were killed when a fast-moving fire overwhelmed soldiers during a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, southeast of Edmonton, on Saturday. Dozens of others were injured, with 27 remaining in hospi...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Coastal Health is warning anyone in the city's downtown who has had contact with a possibly rabid skunk to get a medical assessment immediately after a video emerged on social media. The video posted on Facebook on Oct. 10 shows a...

MONTREAL - More than 70 years after his death, an Atikamekw baby buried far from his family in Quebec City will be laid to rest in his home community. After 12 years of searching, the family of Maxime Ottawa has located his burial site, exhumed his rem...

OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats were directed this week not to meet with or attend events with candidates in the U.S. midterm elections. Glen Linder, assistant deputy minister for the Americas at Global Affairs Canada, sent a memo midday Tuesday to members...

VANCOUVER - The Eagle Gold mine once accounted for between five and seven per cent of the Yukon's GDP before it was shut down by a 2024 environmental disaster. But the beleaguered operation could have a new life, after a Singapore-based mining company ...

Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with pentobarbital, her ...

BEIJING (AP) - A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China's Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 46 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. Search and rescue...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Miz will try to whiz his famous fastball by batters on baseball's biggest stage, opening a new-look World Series between teams guaranteed to produce a first-time champion. Jacob Misiorowski brings his record-setting h...