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City honours employees for work in the community
The City of Red Deer hosted its annual Employee Recognition Awards banquet on Friday night.Employees were honoured for their long-term service, as well as their commitment to innovation, environmental...
Apr 08, 2019 Curtis Martinek receives the Bob Stollings Award from Mayor Veer and interim City Manager Tara Lodewyk. (City of Red Deer)
Pinterest sets conservative pricing after Lyft drop
NEW YORK - Pinterest, among the gaggle of tech companies hoping to go public this year, set a conservative price range Monday for its initial public offering. It hopes to raise as much as $1.5 billion...
Apr 08, 2019
Klooster looking to shake-off partisan politics during election campaign
The Alberta Party's candidate for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake says Albertans need to be redirected away from the political game-playing taking place during the provincial election campaign.Danielle Klooster...
Apr 08, 2019 Danielle Klooster, Alberta Party candidate for the riding of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.
Her Majesty's secret service: Prince William studies spies
LONDON - Prince William, spy extraordinaire? Kensington Palace officials have revealed that William has spent three weeks working with Britain's secret services to understand how the country's securit...
Apr 08, 2019
'Come From Away,' 'The Inheritance' score at Olivier Awards
LONDON - "The Inheritance", an epic drama about gay lives in New York, and musicals "Come From Away" and "Company" were the big winners at British theatre's Olivier Awards on Sunday, receiving four tr...
Apr 08, 2019
'Shazam!' debuts with $53.5M, handing DC Comics another win
NEW YORK - Seven films in, the DC Extended Universe is finally flying with some wind behind its back. The well-reviewed, relatively modestly budgeted "Shazam!" debuted with $53.5 million in ticket sal...
Apr 08, 2019
Netflix teases upcoming Beyonce special 'Homecoming'
NEW YORK - It took just one word for Netflix to send Beyonce fans into a full-on freak out. The streaming giant on Sunday posted on its social media channels a yellow image with the word "Homecoming" ...
Apr 08, 2019
Vietnam vet who died Christmas Eve is finally laid to rest
RALEIGH, N.C. - When a Vietnam War veteran died Christmas Eve with no family nearby, a community of veterans, a friend and military supporters in North Carolina stepped up to make sure he was finally ...
Apr 08, 2019
As cholera raged in Yemen, warring factions blocked vaccines
ADEN, Yemen - In the summer of 2017, a plane chartered by the United Nations idled on the tarmac at an airport in the Horn of Africa as officials waited for final clearance to deliver half a million d...
Apr 08, 2019
Trump's choice to replace Nielsen focuses on southern border
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned amid President Donald Trump's growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southe...
Apr 08, 2019