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Student Vote shows youth eager to have voices heard
More than one million Canadian elementary and secondary students are casting ballots this week as part of Student Vote Canada 2019.The vote, which will engage more than 9500 schools nationwide, is mad...
Oct 17, 2019 Trevor Selent (left) and Connor Jacobson, grade 12s at Notre Dame High School, took part in Student Vote Canada 2019 on Thrusday. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)
Saturday is Sockey Night in Red Deer
United Way Central Alberta is pleased to announce the eleventh annual Sockey Night in Red Deer in partnership with the Red Deer Rebels - Saturday, October 19 beginning 7 p.m. at the Westerner Park Cen...
Oct 17, 2019
Charity Checkstop in Red Deer Saturday
The Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre, in partnership with Coats for Kids, Victory Church, and The City of Red Deer, are hosting their annual Charity Checkstop this weekend.Volunteers will be co...
Oct 17, 2019
Drug charges pending after driver nabbed for hit and run in Sylvan Lake
Some alert citizens helped Sylvan Lake RCMP arrest a man wanted following a hit and run incident this morning. Mounties responded to a 911 complaint of a hit and run with a parked vehicle in the Fox R...
Oct 17, 2019
Food missing from public art display highlights local hunger issue: United Way
Officials with United Way Central Alberta say the disappearance of food from one of their public art displays at a city recreation facility this week truly highlights the issue of hunger in our commun...
Oct 17, 2019 Officials with United Way Central Alberta say food found missing from a public art display set up at the Dawe Recreation Centre recently and highlighting the issue of hunger in our community, truly demonstrates the issue is real in central Alberta.
Christmas Wish Breakfast
RED DEER- The Black Knight Inn will once again host the 4th Annual Christmas Wish Breakfast, Sunday November 17 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.This year's event is themed "Families Helping Families". There con...
Oct 17, 2019
RCMP eyeing efficiencies at Sylvan Lake, Rimbey detachments
RCMP are looking to explore efficiencies and deliver a better policing model through a proposed pilot project recently shared with Sylvan Lake Town Council. At their meeting on Tuesday, council heard ...
Oct 17, 2019
Energy Secretary Perry tells Trump he plans on resigning
FORT WORTH, Texas - Energy Secretary Rick Perry has notified the president that he intends to leave his job soon. That's according to an administration official who confirmed the news on condition of ...
Oct 17, 2019
Red Deer activists join call to end poverty in Canada
On the cusp of Monday's federal election, volunteers with the Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance (CAPRA) took to the streets of Red Deer to call for an end to poverty in Canada.With Oct. 17 be...
Oct 17, 2019 Harrison Blizzard, Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance member (left), is joined by Jason Steele (right) from The Hub on Ross on Thursday, to pass out bags of apples donated by Central Alberta Coop encouraging central Albertans to urge the next federal government to implement a plan to end poverty in Canada. (Photo: rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)
Four Green nominees in Quebec made Islamophobic comments, party says
OTTAWA - The Green party said Tuesday it recently learned of Islamophobic social-media posts by four of its Quebec candidates. The candidates will make public statements ...
Oct 17, 2019