special sitdown with the legend, Gary McKinnon
Podcast: Celebrating 10 years of rdnewsNOW with guests galore
This July marks ten years since the launch of rdnewsNOW.com.We've published thousands of stories, big and small, happy, sad, and everywhere in between since the website became a reality. For decades prior, newsies in the building on historic Bremner Avenue had been pumping out quality journalism.The last generation ran...
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Alberta Labour Force Stats
Red Deer region unemployment rate decreases in June
The provincial job numbers are in for June, and Red Deer's unemployment rate has decreased from 6.7 per cent in May to 6.3 per cent.However, according to the Alberta Labour Force Statistics, it's up slightly from the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate reported in April for Red Deer at 6.2 per cent.The seasonally u...
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special sitdown with the legend, Gary McKinnon
Podcast: Celebrating 10 years of rdnewsNOW with guests galore
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special sitdown with the legend, Gary McKinnon
Podcast: Celebrating 10 years of rdnewsNOW with guests galore
For Grades 7-12
Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools receives funding for two additional complexity teams
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Conditions as of July 7
Warm temperatures, good moisture causing crops to progress quickly in central Alberta
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Red Deer and Area
special sitdown with the legend, Gary McKinnon
Podcast: Celebrating 10 years of rdnewsNOW with guests galore
This July marks ten years since the launch of rdnewsNOW.com.We've published thousands of stories, big and small, happy, sad, and everywhere in between since the website became a reality. For decades prior, newsies in the building on historic Bremner Avenue had been pumping out quality journalism.The last generation ran...
19m ago
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For Grades 7-12
Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools receives funding for two additional complexity teams
Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools announced they have been allocated funding for two additional classroom complexity teams for Grades 7-12.This comes after Minister Nicolaides announced that the government would be allocating funding for 221 new classroom complexity teams, including 158 for Grades 7-12 and 63 for K-6....
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Conditions as of July 7
Warm temperatures, good moisture causing crops to progress quickly in central Alberta
Warm temperatures and good moisture are causing crops to progress quickly in the central Alberta region.That's according to the latest Alberta Crop Report from Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) and the Government of Alberta.The report indicates that these conditions also pose challenges for spraying cro...
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Alberta Labour Force Stats
Red Deer region unemployment rate decreases in June
The provincial job numbers are in for June, and Red Deer's unemployment rate has decreased from 6.7 per cent in May to 6.3 per cent.However, according to the Alberta Labour Force Statistics, it's up slightly from the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate reported in April for Red Deer at 6.2 per cent.The seasonally u...
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Alberta
Amber Alert
Missing six-year-old spotted in Fort St. John
Another update has been shared regarding the search for six-year-old Lanakai Morrison.RCMP say they had multiple reported sightings of the boy in BC, and one confirmed sighting Wednesday morning (July 8) in Fort St. John.Mounties say they are working with BC RCMP to locate Lanakai and have several other leads they are ...
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"massive"
Three sent to hospital after tornadoes touch down in Alberta, campground evacuated
CHAUVIN - Two tornadoes touched down in Alberta on Wednesday, toppling trees, tearing up trailers in a campground and sending three people to hospital.Dillberry Lake Provincial Park in central Alberta, near the Saskatchewan boundary, was evacuated and campers were told to head to the nearby village of Chauvin, Alta.Nei...
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Fake data
Elections Alberta alerts public to spoofed website
Elections Alberta announced they recently identified a website that appears to be attempting to represent itself as Elections Alberta.The government says the spoofed URL of electionsab.ca was designed to mislead by mimicking the legitimate website URL of elections.ab.ca, and exploit concerns about the recent unauthoriz...
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seen in fort st. john, b.c. wednesday, prior to amber alert
Update: Amber Alert cancelled for Alberta, but still in effect for B.C.
Update: As of 3:30 p.m. on Friday, the Amber Alert for Alberta has been cancelled. It remains in effect in British Columbia.--The search for Lanakai Morrison is now interprovincial. RCMP have again expanded an Amber Alert and the search area for Lanakai Morrison, offering a new update late Thursday that the four-year-o...
Jul 09, 2026
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Local Sports
Receive draft picks
Rebels complete trade with Seattle Thunderbirds
The Red Deer Rebels completed a trade with the Seattle Thunderbirds on Friday.Red Deer acquired a sixth-round pick in the 2029 WHL Prospects Draft and a conditional third-round pick in the 2030 WHL Prospects Draft.In exchange, the Thunderbirds received the WHL playing rights to forward Cooper Soller, who was selected b...
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Experienced coach
Rebels name Brent Kisio as new head coach
The Red Deer Rebels have hired Brent Kisio as their new head coach.He joins the Rebels after serving three seasons as an assistant coach with the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League."I'm very excited to be coming back home and joining a great organization in the Red Deer Rebels," Kisio said...
Jul 09, 2026
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Valuable experience
RDP names new head coach for Queens soccer and futsal programs
Red Deer Polytechnic has named a new head coach for its Queens soccer and futsal programs.Devin Simon, a former student-athlete on the Medicine Hat College Rattlers men's soccer team and assistant coach on the Olds College Broncos men's and women's soccer teams, has been hired to replace departing head coach Mahziar Pe...
Jul 09, 2026
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Canada
Innu community in Quebec signs deal to take back control of child welfare services
An Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec has signed a deal with the federal and provincial governments to officially recognize its jurisdiction over child and family services. The agreement signed today allows for the implementation of a ne...
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Media consortium seeks Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting documents
VANCOUVER - A consortium of media outlets has gone to court in British Columbia to obtain information about guns used in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and the firearms seized from the home of the attacker. The consortium, which includes The Canadian ...
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Gordie Howe International Bridge to open in July after delay: sources
WASHINGTON - The Gordie Howe International Bridge is set to open this month after a ribbon-cutting ceremony in June was delayed as the Trump administration looked to renegotiate a long-standing agreement between Canada and the U.S. Sources with knowle...
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Veteran mediator Vince Ready to step in to try to end B.C. nurses' dispute
PRINCE GEORGE - Veteran mediator Vince Ready has been appointed to try to help settle the British Columbia nurses' dispute as the union steps up its job action. Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside said in a statement on Friday that Ready and Amanda Rog...
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Liberals set to hold nomination for upcoming Toronto byelection
OTTAWA - The Liberals are planning to choose a candidate July 18 for an upcoming byelection in a Toronto-area riding that's considered a safe bet for the governing party. Longtime MP Nate Erskine-Smith resigned his seat in Beaches-East York this week....
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California Democrat calls for Canada to end U.S. alcohol restrictions
WASHINGTON - A Democrat Senator from California wrote a letter to Premier Christine Fréchette asking Quebec to lift restrictions on the importation and sale of U.S. wine as the American bipartisan push against provincial alcohol bans grows. "Canada's b...
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World
Graham Platner withdraws from Maine Senate race, kicking off Democrats' quest for nominee
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Graham Platner on Friday submitted his paperwork to formally withdraw from Maine's U.S. Senate race, officially ending an upstart yet troubled campaign whose dissolution threatens Democrats' pursuit of chamber control. ...
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US-Canada bridge set to open by late July after delay due to issues between countries, sources say
SAWYER, Mich. (AP) - A completed bridge linking Detroit and Canada is expected to open by the end of the month after U.S. and Canadian officials reached an agreement to resolve the dispute that delayed its debut, according to two people directly involv...
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Students abducted in May by Islamic militants in Nigeria are rescued, government says
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Students abducted in May by Islamic militants in Nigeria's southwestern Oyo state have been rescued, the government said Friday. Government spokesman Bayo Onanuga did not specify the total number of students rescued,...
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