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Ellis Bird Farm site manager retires after 33 years
A local who helped change a farm east of Blackfalds into a beautiful nature sanctuary is calling it a career. After 33 years, site manager Myrna Pearman has retired from Ellis Bird Farm.On Oct. 30, th...
Nov 02, 2020
Rocky RCMP Report October 24-29
This is a report released to the media from the Rocky Mountain House (RMH) RCMP giving a brief description of various crimes and call-ins, both solved and unsolved throughout the community between the...
Nov 02, 2020
No budget yet for Liberals' promise to plant two billion trees by 2030
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's massive tree-planting promise from the 2019 election has yet to be allocated a single dime. Trudeau pledged a year ago that the government would plant tw...
Nov 02, 2020
Cilantro and Chive Burger of the Month donation to Lacombe Food Bank
Our guests were not afraid of no ghosts nor a burger on a black bun in October, and we'll call that a big YES for our Burger of the Month Program. We were thrilled to team up with Chad Carlson of the ...
Nov 02, 2020
Canadian soldier killed in Netherlands in Second World War identified
OTTAWA - The Defence Department says it's identified remains of a Canadian soldier buried in a cemetery in the Netherlands near the end of the Second World War. Trooper Henry George Johnston's identit...
Nov 02, 2020
Bruised and haunted, US holds tight as 2020 campaigns close
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Just over her mask, Patra Okelo's eyes brimmed with tears when she recalled the instant that a truth about America dawned and her innocence burned away. One moment on Aug. 11, 2...
Nov 02, 2020
US construction spending up again, rises 0.3% in September
SILVER SPRING, Md. - U.S. construction spending rose 0.3% in September, the fourth straight monthly gain after a coronavirus-caused spring swoon, although a smaller gain than analysts had expected. Th...
Nov 02, 2020
Blanchet seeks to drive values wedge between Quebec and Trudeau government
OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is doubling down on efforts to draw a line separating his party's values and those of the Trudeau Liberals, particularly on the fraught ground of fre...
Nov 02, 2020
Hurricane Eta threatens to bring flooding, storm surge
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - New Hurricane Eta quickly gained force Monday as it headed for Central America on the verge of becoming a major hurricane, threatening massive flooding and landslides across a vul...
Nov 02, 2020
US manufacturing activity at highest levels in two years
WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturing posted a strong gain in October to the highest level in two years even as coronavirus cases have begun to surge again in many parts of the country. The Institute for Su...
Nov 02, 2020