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Iced coffees and orange juice: as schools remain shut, locker contents ripen
For months, their contents have sat locked up in the stale hallway air in schools across the country. The jackets, books and gym shoes - along with more perishable items - were left beh...
May 16, 2020

Trudeau sees travel between PM's 'cottages' as trips between work and home
OTTAWA - While Canadians are being counselled to avoid travelling to their cottages during the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Trudeau is expected to spend the first long weeke...
May 16, 2020

Overdoses 'sadly normalized' in British Columbia: addictions minister
VANCOUVER - A rising death toll from overdoses in B.C. during the COVID-19 pandemic has advocates, government officials and health-care workers concerned about a public health emergency that has been&...
May 16, 2020

Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs
LOS ANGELES - The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament outside Los Angeles did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all sustained immediately fatal injuri...
May 15, 2020

Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs
LOS ANGELES - The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, and all nine sustained immediately fatal injuries when their h...
May 15, 2020

Snowbirds 'Operation Inspiration' comes to Red Deer, Rocky Mountain House Saturday morning
The Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds will be in our area Saturday morning. The famed aerobatics team is on a cross-country tour, dubbed Operation Inspiration, aimed at boosting morale as Canadians cont...
May 15, 2020

Rugby Canada cuts player payments, says it will need financial help later in 2020
TORONTO - Citing financial pressures due to the global pandemic, Rugby Canada has cancelled "training support payments" for its centralized men's and women's players as of May 1. The players get a mon...
May 15, 2020

NFL teams can reopen facilities Tuesday - with provisos
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associat...
May 15, 2020

Road closure in Mountview next week
Residents in Mountview will notice a water main replacement project happening at the intersection of 43A Avenue and 39 Street next week. Crews contracted by The City of Red Deer will be conducting the...
May 15, 2020

NFL teams can reopen facilities Tuesday - with provisos
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associat...
May 15, 2020