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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)
Victim speaks out for first time about 'Slender Man' attack
MILWAUKEE - A Wisconsin girl who was lured into the woods by two friends and stabbed 19 times in an effort to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man said she's come to terms with aspec...
Oct 24, 2019
'Human error' blamed for long delay reporting results in Ontario riding
OTTAWA - Elections Canada is blaming "human error" for having left federal candidates in one southern Ontario riding waiting the better part of a day to find out who garnered the most votes there in M...
Oct 24, 2019
'Human error' blamed for long delay reporting results in Ontario riding
OTTAWA - Elections Canada is blaming "human error" for having left federal candidates in one southern Ontario riding waiting the better part of a day to find out who garnered the most votes there in M...
Oct 24, 2019