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Ponoka green cart pick up schedule moves biweekly on Nov. 1
The Town of Ponoka announced that curbside green cart pickup will move to a biweekly schedule on November 1.From then until April 2026, green carts will be picked up every two weeks as the town moves ...
Oct 14, 2025
Red Deer RCMP and Red Deer Emergency Services conduct training scenarios
Red Deer RCMP together with Red Deer Emergency Services and other internal and external partners, took part in a joint mass-casualty training exercise at Westerner Park last month.The Sept. 23, 2025, ...
Oct 11, 2025
Our Best to You Handmade Market set for Oct. 24-26
One of Red Deer's biggest craft shows is returning later this month.The Our Best to You Handmade Market is set for Oct. 24-26 at the Prairie and Parkland Pavilions in Westerner Park, where over 150 ar...
Oct 11, 2025
Red Deer Symphony Orchestra tuning up for 2025-26 concert series debut
It's almost go time for the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and its 2025-26 season.If you ask their music director, Claude Lapalme, the first show of the year, on Oct. 18, marks a fresh start."We are thri...
Oct 10, 2025
Red Deer Downtown Business Association seeking board directors
The Red Deer Downtown Business Association has space for three board directors.Those interested should be passionate about downtown Red Deer, interested in contributing to its future, and must be able...
Oct 10, 2025
New pulmonary function testing program launches for rural and remote areas in Alberta
Albertans in rural and remote areas, as well as those in Indigenous communities, now have access to a new service able to keep tabs on a person's lung health.The service is called Lung Health Check Pu...
Oct 10, 2025
Central Alberta harvest ahead of five-year average
Harvest for all crops combined in the Central Alberta region is at 96 per cent, above the 5-year average of 94 per cent. That's according to the latest Alberta Crop Report from Agriculture Financial S...
Oct 10, 2025
Direct Energy comes out to support Camp Alexo for 4th year
Camp Alexo is once again the recipient of a $10,000 donation from Direct Energy (DE).The donation was made late last month, with employees from DE also making a two-day trip to Camp Alexo near Nordegg...
Oct 10, 2025
Red Deer region's unemployment rate rises in September
The Red Deer economic region's unemployment rate came in at 7.0 per cent last month, up from 5.4 per cent in August but still down from 7.6 per cent in September 2024. That's according to the latest L...
Oct 10, 2025
Education professor calls parent tool kit during teachers strike "incoherent"
An education expert says online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers' strike are -- quote -- ``incoherent.''Maren Aukerman, an education professor at ...
Oct 10, 2025