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Fibre optic installation work happening in Red Deer through 2025 & 2026
Work to install fibre optics in Red Deer is beginning, the municipality advised this week.F3 Networks Canada Inc. (F3) is partering with Telus to bring fibre optic services to more homes and businesses, with crews doing work throughout 2025 and 2026.Residents may be visited from the F3 team as they go door-to-door to g...
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building community
United Way Central Alberta raises $1.7 million in 2024
United Way Central Alberta raised $1.7 million in 2024, it was announced at a celebration on Monday night.The total surpasses that of 2023, with funds used to strengthen partner agencies delivering vital programs around the region."This year's campaign is a testament to the local love and care we have within our c...
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province, ottawa both need to speak up
Reaction mixed as UCP proposing choice of police force for municipalities
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new 'everything red deer podcast' episode
Sylvan Lake RCMP first in central Alberta to get body cams
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Fibre optic installation work happening in Red Deer through 2025 & 2026
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2022 INCIDENT
Lacombe County resident sentenced in Daysland Bank break and enter
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Red Deer and Area
province, ottawa both need to speak up
Reaction mixed as UCP proposing choice of police force for municipalities
The Government of Alberta is proposing amendments which it says would ensure the province's evolving safety needs are met by giving municipalities choice in policing.Bill 49, or the Public Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 2024, would create a new independent agency police service to assume the police-like duties of Alber...
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Fibre optic installation work happening in Red Deer through 2025 & 2026
Work to install fibre optics in Red Deer is beginning, the municipality advised this week.F3 Networks Canada Inc. (F3) is partering with Telus to bring fibre optic services to more homes and businesses, with crews doing work throughout 2025 and 2026.Residents may be visited from the F3 team as they go door-to-door to g...
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2022 INCIDENT
Lacombe County resident sentenced in Daysland Bank break and enter
An 18 month conditional sentence and $200 fine have been given to 31-year-old Nicholas Klinck, a Lacombe County resident, following his January trial in Edmonton Court of King's Bench. The initial incident took place on August 31, 2022, when Killam-Forestburg RCMP received a report of a break in at the Daysland Alberta...
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DEC. 15-17 TRIAL
Trial scheduled for Red Deer residents charged in stolen firearms arrest
Two Red Deer residents have had their trial date set following an alleged seizure of firearms and stolen property that occurred late last year. Joshua Severin, 31, and Shelby Krause, 33, are scheduled to appear at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer for trial from Dec. 15-17, 2025. It was Nov. 13, 2024, when Red D...
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Federal Election 2025
Liberal Party of Canada
Candidate profile: Michael Fark (LPC) - Yellowhead
Michael Fark, the Liberal Party of Canada's (LPC) candidate for the newly re-drawn Yellowhead riding, says he's stepping into the political arena with a wealth of practical experience and a focus on infrastructure, crisis management, and local economic development.Fark, who currently calls Jasper home, says he brings a...
Apr 07, 2025
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Conservative Party of Canada
Candidate profile: William Stevenson (CPC) - Yellowhead
William Stevenson, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) candidate for the newly re-drawn Yellowhead riding, is stepping into the political spotlight after years of behind-the-scenes work.A professional chartered accountant (CPA) with over 26 years of experience in personal and corporate tax, Stevenson says he has dee...
Apr 07, 2025
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New Democratic Party
Candidate profile: Avni Soma NDP - Yellowhead
Avni Soma, the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the Yellowhead riding, is bringing her diverse background in business, food systems, and community advocacy to the political arena. After years of building businesses and pushing for systemic changes on a local and national level, Soma says it's time to bring her ...
Apr 07, 2025
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Alberta
Provincial Politics
Alberta measles outbreak not dire enough to warrant public address; health minister
Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says Alberta's measles outbreak isn't dire enough for the province's top doctor for public health to address the public, despite mounting calls for the government to do more to stop the spread.Alberta has reported 43 cases of the highly infectious disease over the past month.The Edmonto...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta moves to restrict public boards' power to police trustees, councilors
Alberta is looking to reduce the self-policing powers of elected public school boards and municipal councils.The changes are included in two bills put forward by Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative government.In one bill, Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver proposes pulling local council's codes of conduct a...
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top cop
Alberta RCMP name new commanding officer
Alberta RCMP have announced Assistant Commissioner Trevor Daroux will become the force's next commanding officer. Daroux has over 36 years of experience in policing, serving in both Calgary with CPS, and with the RCMP elsewhere. In 2017, he joined the RCMP and served as Director General National Crime Prevention and In...
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looking to increase surgery volume
UCP announce new funding model for acute care, critics say it's another step in wrong direction
With Acute Care Alberta now quite operational, the UCP shared Monday a new funding model for acute care is coming into play.The government claims its new model will increase accountability, efficiency, and volume of high-quality surgical delivery.As the UCP government pointed out, the health care system has, until now,...
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Local Sports
U19 and U16
Central Alberta Fire female football kicks off third season
The Central Alberta Fire, the region's only all-female football program, has returned for its third season this summer.The Fire, who are split into two teams of U19 and U16, kicked off the season on Saturday with their third annual jamboree.At The Dome Red Deer, they hosted multiple female football teams from across th...
Apr 05, 2025
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APRIL 4-6
Lacombe swim club competing in unique lifesaving sport championship
Lacombe's Sea Lions swim club is joining over 350 athletes to compete at the 2025 Alberta and Northwest Territories Pool Lifesaving Championships and Junior Games this weekend. From April 4-6, the annual competition will take place at Calgary's Brookfield Residential YMCA at Seton. Lifesaving Sport is a unique program ...
Apr 04, 2025
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Hockey is for everyone
Team Jigger Sledge Hockey receives equipment donation from NHLPA Goals & Dreams
The National Hockey League Players' Association Goals & Dreams fund has made a generous donation to the Lacombe-based Team Jigger Foundation Sledge Hockey Program.The program recently received 10 brand new sets of sledge hockey equipment from the NHLPA, which will go towards helping kids get involved in the sport f...
Apr 04, 2025
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Canada
B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says guardianship law 'opaque,' lacks oversight
British Columbia's human rights commissioner says the province is the only place that she's aware of in Canada that allows people to be detained by the state without explicit legal authority, timelines or oversight. Kasari Govender says B.C.'s approach to holding people under the Adult Guardianship Act is discriminator...
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'Sign of hope' for endangered killer whales as centre confirms newborn calf
The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre says in a Facebook post that biologist Mark Malleson encountered J-pod, part of the larger population of southern resident killer ...
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Rise in asylum seekers to Canada as migrants' protected status set to expire in U.S.
MONTREAL - Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal. The rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States is set to expir...
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Aviation consortium celebrates first piloted hydrogen-powered flight
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based aviation consortium says it is celebrating the first ever piloted hydrogen-powered helicopter flight, calling it a "milestone in sustainable aviation." Canadian Advanced Air Mobility says its national board member Unither Bioélectronique completed the experimental flight a...
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U.S. trade representative faces pushback from lawmakers over Trump's global tariffs
WASHINGTON - With a fresh round of U.S. tariffs set to hit the world Wednesday, the United States trade representative faced pushback today from lawmakers worried about the fallout from President Donald Trump's efforts to realign global trade. Jamieson Greer faced questions from the Senate finance committee about how T...
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In the news today: Carney, Poilievre kick off week in B.C.
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney, Poilievre kick off week in B.C. The Liberal and Conservative leaders both started the third week of the federal election campaign in British Columbia - a battleground province with 43 seats up for grabs when Canadians go t...
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World
A Florida man is executed for killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on a lunch break
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, authorities said. In a fi...
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Octavio Dotel, who once held record of pitching for 13 major league teams, dies in DR roof collapse
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Octavio Dotel, who pitched for 13 major league teams in a 15-year career and won a world championship with the St. Louis Cardinals, was among the dead after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in his native Dominican Republic where he was attending a merengue concert. He was 51. Off...
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Wayne Gretzky says he has 'no political power' over the president or prime minister
TORONTO (AP) - Retired NHL great Wayne Gretzky downplayed his influence on Donald Trump in his first public comments since the U.S. president began his second term and began making references to making Canada the 51st state. On a radio show Monday hosted by Ben Mulroney, son of former conservative Prime Minister Brian ...
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