A welding apprentice from Red Deer Polytechnic officially ranks among the top in his field worldwide.Lucas Stang recently earned a Medal of Excellence for demonstrating outstanding skill at the 2026 WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai, China.Stang ranked sixth among 39 participants globally in the post-secondary weldin...

Red Deer Polytechnic has appointed two new vice presidents.On Monday, the institution named Dr. Tristin Brisbois as Vice President of Development and Partnerships, and Blayne Meek as Vice President of Communications, People, and Enrolment.Among Brisbois' responsibilities will be to provide strategic leadership to advan...

Employees and shoppers at Henry's Western Wear in Rocky Mountain House were starstruck Friday afternoon following an unexpected visit from an international superstar. The front door opened, and there stood award-winning, multiplatinum-selling American country artist Blake Shelton. Henry's Western Wear manager Mabel Mah...

Red Deer lawyer Maurice Collard, KC, has been appointed to the Alberta Law Enforcement Review Board.Collard has worked in the justice system for over two decades, starting as a Crown Prosecutor. In 2015, he opened Advocate Law with a fellow lawyer."It's very humbling to receive a direct appointment to serve Albert...

Primary Care Alberta is reminding everyone that its Indigenous Support Line, which offers culturally-grounded care, is available.The line is open Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 1-844-944-4744 or through 811."Supporting culturally-grounded and respectful care is an important part of reconciliation. Th...

An Alberta mobile mammography program that has travelled to rural and remote communities for 35 years has completed more than 575,000 mammograms.Primary Care Alberta's Screen Test program marked the milestone this fall, with two mobile units now travelling to about 120 communities across the province, screening as many...

A high-speed rail line between Calgary and Edmonton, with a stop in Red Deer, took one more step towards becoming a reality on Monday.Today, the Alberta government said plans are moving forward, with the federal government supporting its efforts to advance the project.This fall, the provincial government will formally ...

The former leader of the United Kingdom during the Brexit referendum says you can't compare that debate to Alberta's prospective split from Canada. David Cameron largely avoided talking directly about Alberta's separation debate when speaking at an energy leadership conference in downtown Calgary on Monday morning. But...

THAT WINNING FEELING!Your Red Deer Rebels put not one, but two in the win column over the weekend!Friday, Sept. 25 - The Rebels celebrated a night of 'firsts' as they earned their first win of the season, 4-3 on the road over the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Beckett Hamilton, in his first game of the season after returning f...

Red Deer Rebels captain Beckett Hamilton has been on quite a tear.Since returning from training camp with the National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche, he recorded five points in two games last week.His performances over the weekend earned him WHL Player of the Week honours as the Rebels improved to 2-1-0-1.The 18-y...

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labour Day kickoff) from now up until November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-sid...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Parliament will address AI safety after media reports suggested OpenAI's chatbot coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter. But it's not clear if Carney was referring today to the Liberals' already-proposed digital safe...

A study suggests young Canadians are more likely to feel hopeless about democracy than older residents. The Statistics Canada study found about a quarter of respondents aged 25 to 44 were "not at all hopeful" about how democracy works in Canada, while ...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government is making a new $1.2 billion investment in ocean conservation as the country inches toward a decision on a new West Coast pipeline. Speaking in Vancouver today, Carney said the funds will go to...

OTTAWA - Canada's former top soldier says the country's "persistent myth" about being a nation of peacekeepers hasn't kept up with a changing world and it "needs to fade away." In a new memoir, retired general Wayne Eyre says traditional, UN-style peac...

EDMONTON - Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak on national unity tonight in Edmonton, with less than three weeks to go until Albertans vote on separation. Poilievre is to deliver a keynote speech for a stronger Alberta within a...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service may not have complied with the law when using special powers to gather information, a review by the national spy watchdog has found. The CSIS Act allows designated spy service employees to commit cert...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration continue swiftly deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal. The apparent ...

LONDON (AP) - A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has deepened questions and uncertainty about the in...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an assault charge against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas, accusing the man of striking an officer with his side mirror while try...