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The City of Lacombe will be helping the Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce move to a new home as plans get underway to turn their current location into a new commercial development.The Chamber's...
Feb 11, 2020 (Google)
Red Deer native Adam Sandstrom of the Whitecourt Wolverines is the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Defenceman of the Week. Sandstrom, who led all AJHL defencemen in scoring last week, has also been nam...
Feb 11, 2020 Adam Sandstrom (Photo: AJHL)
WASHINGTON - With a new continental trade deal all but done, it might be tempting to think that cross-border business anxiety will soon be a thing of the past, at least for a while. But...
Feb 11, 2020
Mirella Freni, an Italian soprano whose uncommon elegance and intensity combined with a sumptuous voice and intelligence to enthrall audiences for a half-century, has died at age 84. Freni died Sunday...
Feb 11, 2020
LOS ANGELES - Subtitle this: "Parasite" is the first non-English language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards. Bong Joon Ho's masterfully devious class satire took Ho...
Feb 11, 2020
Olds RCMP are investigating two break-ins at the Canada Post office in Bowden. The incidents occurred on February 6 and 10. Police say that in the first incident, the suspects broke through the main e...
Feb 11, 2020
Donations to the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre (CACAC) keep pouring in. On Monday, Troubled Monk Brewery donated $1,000 to the centre, while the Piper Creek Optimist Club made a commitment to ...
Feb 11, 2020 Left to right: Ted Emmett (Piper Creek Optimist Club), Bud Kelly (troubled Monk), Mark Jones (CACAC), NIck Kietaibl and Matt Hamill (Piper Creek Optimist Club).
The Trudeau government needs to scramble to deepen trade and investment in Africa to make up for ground lost to competitors such as China, the United States and Europe, say Canada's top chie...
Feb 11, 2020
VICTORIA - British Columbia's NDP government is promising new funding supplements for children and youth in care and the expansion of commuter service into the Fraser Valley in a throne speech to...
Feb 11, 2020
The City of Lacombe has reached a deal with a local developer that it says will benefit taxpayers and revitalize key downtown properties.The deal sees The Tricon Group purchase the former police stati...
Feb 11, 2020 Lacombe Mayor Grant Creasey (left) and Darcy Stingel from the Tricon Group (right) announced on Tuesday a land exchange agreement between the two organizations that they feel will be a win-win for Lacombe taxpayers. (rdnewsNow/Sheldon Spackman)