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Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Red Deer and surrounding areas
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for Red Deer and the surrounding area.Officials with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) say conditions are favourable for the development of sever...
Aug 12, 2025
Ice dam at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier releases floodwater toward downstream homes
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be...
Aug 12, 2025
Bengals plan to make Canadian running back Chase Brown a focal point of the offense in 2025
CINCINNATI (AP) - After being one of the league's top running backs in the second half of last season, the Cincinnati Bengals are looking for Canadian Chase Brown to be an even bigger focal point this...
Aug 12, 2025
RDP to turn recycled asphalt shingles into paving stones
Red Deer Polytechnic's Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing Technology Access Centre (CIM-TAC) has collaborated with other Alberta polytechnic's to begin a new research initiative to transform aspha...
Aug 12, 2025
Zelenskyy says Putin wants the rest of Ukraine's Donetsk region as part of a ceasefire
BRUSSELS (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw from the remaining 30% of the Donetsk region that Ukraine controls ...
Aug 12, 2025
Filly No Time set as 7-2 early favourite for $1-million King's Plate
TORONTO - Filly No Time has been installed as the 7-2 early favourite for the $1-million King's Plate. The '25 Woodbine Oaks champion received the No. 20 post Tuesday during the race draw at Woodbine ...
Aug 12, 2025
Ontario youth climate case to be put to the test again in December
TORONTO - Ontario's climate plan is set to be put to the constitutional test again in December. A lawyer for a group of young climate activists says their historic constitutional challenge is set to b...
Aug 12, 2025
Man charged with assault after attack on Jewish father in Montreal caught on video
MONTREAL - Montreal police say a 23-year-old man has been charged in the assault of a Jewish father at a park last week. Sergio Yanes Preciado was charged with assault causing bodily harm, and appeare...
Aug 12, 2025
Red Deer County seeks election workers for 2025 municipal election
Red Deer County is seeking people interested in working in various roles for this fall's municipal election.Elections are slated for Oct. 20 around the province."This year we are looking to hire about...
Aug 12, 2025
Canada condemns Israel over deaths of journalists, new restrictions on aid
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says a "famine is unfolding" in Gaza which will be made even worse by new restrictions by Israel on international aid groups. Anand signed a joint stateme...
Aug 12, 2025