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Alberta's massive teachers strike is having an impact on people training to become teachers.Haley Roberts, an education student from the University of Alberta, says she was supposed to begin a require...

Albertans are being warned by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to be wary of spoof websites imitating the provincial government's Parent Payment Program portal.That's the site by which the UCP are giv...

Red Deer County has lifted its fire restriction.The change came into effect as of 2 p.m. Tuesday, and is due to recent precipitation and colder temperatures.Permits are now available online at www.rdc...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...