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The City of Lacombe has been given a provincial award for repurposing their decommissioned former lagoon cells in an innovative way. The City received the 2023 Economic Developers Alberta (EDA) Commun...

Tina Fontaine; 15 in 2014.Trudy Gopher; 19 in 1997.Kimberly Lynn Cardinal; 34 in 2019.Cindy Gladue; 36 in 2011.These names represent but a miniscule fraction of the estimated thousands of Indigenous w...

Red Deer Emergency Services (RDES) is supplying help related to the wildfire near Drayton Valley, and at the same time are urging people to not take for granted the possibility that fires can easily s...

Lacombe County council approved a zero per cent increase to the county's portion of municipal taxes in 2023. At their meeting on April 27, council approved their 2023 operating and capital budgets and...

The Society for Hospital Expansion in Central Alberta (SHECA) is continuing its advocacy for an expansion to the Red Deer Regional Hospital, this time with a noon rally on Saturday, May 6 at City Hall...

PITTSBURGH - The Toronto Blue Jays have placed right-handed reliever Zach Pop on the 15-day injured list with a right hamstring strain. Pop sustained the injury in the eighth inning of Toronto's 11-5 ...

DEER PARK, Texas (AP) - A chemical plant in the Houston area caught fire Friday, sending a huge plume of smoke into the sky. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said the fire was at a Shell USA Inc. fa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Kentucky man with a long criminal record was sentenced Friday to a record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray as he stormed the U.S. Capitol ...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says the impact of COVID-19 is still with us even after the World Health Organization declared earlier today that the illness no longer qualifies as a global ...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it is changing prison regulations to limit the use of dry cells and improve the process for the search and seizure of contraband in correctional institutions. Dry ...