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Red Deer County council votes down airport funding increase
Despite a push from Mayor Jim Wood for council to approve it, the Red Deer Regional Airport's request for an additional $121,500 was turned away this week.Council defeated the motion 6-1 on Tuesday, with only Mayor Wood voting in favour.The increase was among a list of amendments made in the 2025 spring budget that was...
Apr 17, 2025
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successful pilot program
Red Deer makes transit fare assistance program permanent
Transit fare assistance in Red Deer is now permanently available.Originally a pilot program funded by the Government of Alberta, and which gives riders the chance to buy a monthly pass up to 55 per cent off, the program was approved to continue onward during 2025 budget deliberations.The renewal deadline for qualified ...
Apr 15, 2025
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DROP-IN SPORTS NOW 18+ ONLY
Vandalism in Sylvan Lake continues to have community impact
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episode 1: chatting with the mayor
The Everything Red Deer Podcast launches NOW
Council priorities
Lacombe city council gives update to 2024 strategic plan
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relationship not a one-way street
Podcast: Red Deerians working hard to steward planet as Earth Day circles around
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Red Deer and Area
DROP-IN SPORTS NOW 18+ ONLY
Vandalism in Sylvan Lake continues to have community impact
Effective as of Apr. 16, drop-in sports at Multi-Campus in Sylvan Lake will now only be open to adults over 18-years-old for the remainder of the season. The Town of Sylvan Lake says the decision was made to protect the facility and equipment following ongoing incidents of vandalism during the program. It is currently ...
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Council priorities
Lacombe city council gives update to 2024 strategic plan
Lacombe city council has approved an update on the 2024 strategic plan, which highlights the success and status of council priorities over the current term.As a result, council completed six out of 14 green high priority items last year with two more set to be completed in 2025. The rest deemed green high priority item...
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relationship not a one-way street
Podcast: Red Deerians working hard to steward planet as Earth Day circles around
The overlooked, perhaps undervalued crow flies over, cawing her caw...A grey rabbit, eager for the spring feast which he himself helped fertilize, scurries across...All as the sun beats down on what's become a bona fide made-in-Red Deer success story.Nestled in the southwest corner of the blooming neighbourhood known a...
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raising important funds and awareness
Lending Cupboard hosting annual Ladies Luncheon May 8
The Lending Cupboard is once again inviting the women of central Alberta to attend its 14th annual Ladies Luncheon, May 8 from 11:30 to 1:30 at the Red Deer Resort and Casino.The theme this year is 'Wings of Change--Together, we're expanding horizons and soaring toward brighter futures,' which means to highlight empowe...
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Federal Election 2025
Election approaching
PPC leader Maxime Bernier to hold reform discussion in Red Deer
The leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC), Maxime Bernier, will be in Red Deer on Wednesday evening.Joined by Kyla Courte, the PPC candidate for the Red Deer riding in the upcoming federal election, they'll be discussing reform on April 16 and the public is welcome to attend.It's also an opportunity to learn wha...
Apr 15, 2025
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UNITED PARTY OF CANADA
Candidate profile: Grant Abraham (United) - Ponoka-Didsbury
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of rdnewsNOW and Pattison Media.Advance voting days are April 18, 19, 2...
Apr 14, 2025
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liberal party of canada
Candidate profile: Ayaz Bangash (LIB) - Red Deer
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election. All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit. Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of rdnewsNOW and Pattison Media. Advance voting days are April 18, 19...
Apr 14, 2025
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Alberta
Provincial Politics
Former Alberta minister details allegation Premier Smith purposely misled cabinet
An outspoken member of Alberta's legislature, booted from the United Conservative Party caucus, is airing more detailed allegations of what he calls government deception over a health-care contract scandal.Former cabinet minister Peter Guthrie is accusing Premier Danielle Smith and Health Minister Adriana LaGrange of d...
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'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
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Provincial Politics
Transportation minister calls on Edmonton to cancel bike lane project, irking critics
Alberta's transportation minister is asking the city of Edmonton to cancel an ongoing bike lane project, saying the city should be working to increase vehicle capacity rather than reduce it.Devin Dreeshen says the city's multi-year plan to build 30 blocks of bike lanes on the city's north side will have a negative impa...
Apr 17, 2025
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WHAT TO KNOW
Here's what to know about advance voting in Canada's 2025 federal election
Advance voting for the 2025 federal election gets underway this long weekend.Canadians who are at least 18 years old can vote at their assigned polling station anytime from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on April 17, 18, 19 or 20. ---Where to voteThere are two ways to know where to advance vote. Those who are registered ahead of tim...
Apr 17, 2025
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Local Sports
Aug. 8-25
Three local lacrosse athletes selected to Team Alberta for 2025 Canada Summer Games
The Red Deer Lacrosse Association (RDLA) announced three of its athletes will head to the 2025 Canada Summer Games in August.Innisfail's Lac Catudal, Red Deer's Kian Siemens, and Blackfalds' Tyrell Strauss were selected to join Team Alberta at the games, which will take place in St. John's, Newfoundland from Aug. 8-25....
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U12s at Red Deer's Premier Academy win national cheer gold
Red Deer's Premier Academy is celebrating a gold medal at 2025 Canadian Nationals, held in Niagara Falls earlier this month.The first place finish went to the U12 Level 1 cheer team, and marks the academy's first ever national title."We are incredibly proud of this team and everything they've accomplished," s...
Apr 15, 2025
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Second time
Lacombe's Daxon Rudolph named WHL Rookie of the Week
Prince Albert Raiders defenceman Daxon Rudolph has been named the Western Hockey League's (WHL) Rookie of the Week.This marks the second time the 17-year-old from Lacombe has earned WHL Rookie of the Week honours. Rudolph also won WHL Rookie of the Month last January.Rudolph had a fantastic stretch last week leading al...
Apr 15, 2025
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Canada
Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items
MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected. Poilievre campaigned in Montreal this morning, as he and other federal leaders returned to the campaign trail following the two national leaders' debates ...
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B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
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'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
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Frank Stronach committed to stand trial after preliminary inquiry into two charges
TORONTO - An Ontario court has committed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach to stand trial on two charges related to two complainants as part of his Toronto sexual assault case. Ontario Court Justice Jacqueline Freeman made the ruling at the end of a preliminary inquiry that dealt exclusively with those two charges...
Apr 17, 2025
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U.S. students look north as Trump freezes funding to American universities
VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning. Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and the University of Toro...
Apr 17, 2025
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Trump says tariffs making America rich while also suggesting trade deals are coming
U.S. President Donald Trump showed little signs of backing down on his plans to tariff the world today - even as members of his administration continue to claim the duties will lead to the negotiation of new trade deals. Trump says nothing he heard during a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval...
Apr 17, 2025
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World
Abrego Garcia told visiting senator he was no longer being held at notorious Salvadoran prison
WASHINGTON (AP) - Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is recounting the chronology of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's travel to El Salvador, saying he told him he was initially taken to Baltimore, then Texas, then put on a plane with "no idea where he was going." Upon arriving, Abrego Garcia said he was "traumatized&q...
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Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks 'coming to a head' and 'no one is playing' him in push to end war
PARIS (AP) - President Donald Trump on Friday said negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are "coming to a head" and insisted that neither side is "playing" him in his push to end the grinding war. The comments from Trump came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned earlier Friday that the U.S....
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Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Democratic governor of Wisconsin's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The split ruling from the liberal-controlled court affirms the partial veto power of Wisconsin governors, which is the broades...
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