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Property owner assaulted while having vehicle stolen
A woman is recovering after she was assaulted at gunpoint while having her vehicle stolen Wednesday morning. At 8:48 a.m., Sylvan Lake RCMP responded to a complaint from a rural property that two fema...
Oct 24, 2019
Highlights from Alberta budget 2019
Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its budget Thursday. Here are some of the highlights:* $8.7-billion deficit on revenues of $50 billion.* Debt projected to rise from the current $63 bil...
Oct 24, 2019
Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre expansion not part of Alberta's budget
The first budget from Alberta's United Conservative Government does not include capital funding for Red Deer Regional Hospital expansion.Instead, the capital plan for the budget tabled Thursday by Fin...
Oct 24, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Budget 2019: Debt still grows but path to balance mapped out
Calgary, AB - With a mountain of debt for Albertans to climb out of while being weighed down by low commodity prices for oil and gas, Alberta's 2019 budget is still boasting the lowest tax rate in Can...
Oct 24, 2019 Finance Minister Travis Toews (Photo: Government of Alberta)
New CEO for Westerner Park
Westerner Park has a new CEO.Mike Olesen has been selected by the Board of Directors to take over from Bradley Williams, who stepped out of retirement to serve as CEO for the past year. "The Board wou...
Oct 24, 2019 Mike Olesen (Linkedin profile picture)
Rocky applies for grant funding for new recycling bins
The Town of Rocky Mountain House has applied for a Community Champions Program grant from the Alberta Beverage Container Recycling Corporation (ABCRC) hoping to receive up to $20,000.The money would b...
Oct 24, 2019
City school districts pleased with new seclusion room guidelines
Red Deer's two largest school districts are welcoming the new standards announced Wednesday regarding the use of seclusion rooms, time-outs and physical restraints in Alberta classrooms.The standards ...
Oct 24, 2019 Red Deer Public Schools Superintendent Stu Henry
More used oil round-ups coming in 2020
Red Deerians will have more opportunities to recycle their used oil in 2020.A recent meeting between The City of Red Deer and the Alberta Recycling Management Authority (ARMA) has yielded an agreement...
Oct 24, 2019 (Contributed)
Rocky RCMP Report: Oct. 10-17
This is a report released to the media from the Rocky Mountain House RCMP giving a brief description of various crimes and call-ins, both solved and unsolved throughout the community between the dates...
Oct 24, 2019
Contractor work caused massive power outage Wednesday: City official
A City of Red Deer official says work that was being performed by a contractor at a main substation downtown was the cause of a large power outage that affected roughly one-third of the city during ru...
Oct 24, 2019 (City of Red Deer)