Author Archives:
Employee assaulted in gas station robbery
A Red Deer man has been arrested for robbery following the assault of a gas station employee in Riverside Meadows Tuesday night.It happened around 10:40 p.m. when RCMP responded to the Fas Gas at 5926...
Jun 12, 2019
Nova Chemicals wants to be part of plastic waste solution
Nova Chemicals says it wants to be part of the solution to the problem of plastics in the environment, saying that action by industry, government, communities and consumers is needed to create meaning...
Jun 12, 2019
Wife of US Rep. Hunter to change plea in corruption case
SAN DIEGO - The wife of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter is planning to change her not-guilty plea in a federal corruption case alleging that she and her husband, a close ally of President Donald Trump, spent ...
Jun 12, 2019
Court ruling expands Alberta's Blood reserve, Canada's largest
OTTAWA - Canada's largest Indigenous reserve is about to get larger. Federal Court has found that the federal government underestimated the members of the Blood Tribe in southwestern Alberta when thei...
Jun 12, 2019
Styrofoam take-out boxes and straws among expected targets of plastics ban
OTTAWA - A national ban on the most harmful single-use plastics will very likely force restaurants and fast-food outlets to find non-plastic materials for takeout and delivery containers but plas...
Jun 12, 2019
Ex-Michigan State dean guilty of neglect in handling Nassar
LANSING, Mich. - A former dean who had oversight of now-imprisoned sports doctor Larry Nassar at Michigan State University was found guilty Wednesday of neglect of duty and misconduct in office but ac...
Jun 12, 2019
Maine becomes 8th state to legalize assisted suicide
AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication. Democratic Gov. Janet ...
Jun 12, 2019
Rebels announce pre-season schedule
The Red Deer Rebels have announced they will be playing five pre-season games in advance of the 2019-20 WHL Regular Season. The Rebels preseason schedule, released on Wednesday, is as follows:Tuesday,...
Jun 12, 2019
Grad Service Project raises $50,000 for Child Advocacy Centre
As of June, this year's grad service project "Be the Voice" at cole Secondaire Notre Dame High School has raised a total of $50,000 for the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre. Over the past seven m...
Jun 12, 2019 Students at École Secondaire Notre Dame High School and St. Francis of Assisi Middle School in Red Deer have raised $50,000 through their annual Grad Service Project, to this year go towards the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre.
Red Deer missing out on gas price wars in Calgary, Edmonton
You may have noticed by now that gas prices in Red Deer are around 15 cents per litre higher than in Alberta's two biggest cities.Price wars are being identified as the reason Edmonton and Calgary mot...
Jun 12, 2019