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Calgary Dinos uniforms stolen ahead of U Sports women's soccer championship
CALGARY - A set of University of Calgary women's soccer uniforms was stolen ahead of the team's appearance at the national championship starting Thursday. Head coach Troye Flannery said the ...
Nov 04, 2019
Appeal filed in Red Deer Dream Centre proposal
An appeal has been filed after Red Deer's Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) last month denied an application for a downtown drug and alcohol treatment centre.Wes Giesbrecht, co-chair of the proposed...
Nov 04, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Scientists using aerial drones to compare northern and southern whale behaviour
VANCOUVER - Scientists at the University of British Columbia are using aerial drones to study whether endangered southern resident killer whales are getting enough of their preferred pr...
Nov 04, 2019
'I need answers:' Slain caseworker's sister in court as mental exam ordered
CALGARY - The sister of a caseworker who was stabbed to death while on the job at an assisted-living home says she doesn't want any other family to suffer the same way. Nancy Euwangue travel...
Nov 04, 2019
Raptors' VanVleet "humbled" by chance to give back to basketball in Rockford
TORONTO - Fred VanVleet is giving back to basketball in his hometown of Rockford, Ill. The Toronto Raptors guard has sponsored the VanVleet Court at the BMO Harris Bank Center in R...
Nov 04, 2019
River otter likely snuck through open gates to get to Vancouver koi pond
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver park board official says a hungry river otter following the scent of fresh koi likely scaled a fence or took advantage of a brief opening of gates at a downtown garde...
Nov 04, 2019
100 Kids Who Care comes through for local women in need
Another year of philanthropy is in the books for Red Deer's 100 Kids Who Care.The group met Sunday at Parkland Mall to shop, decorate and fill shoeboxes for local women in need. The boxes were filled ...
Nov 04, 2019 (Supplied)
Five charged in connection with alleged drug trafficking in Medicine Hat, Brooks
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team have arrested five people in Brooks and Medicine Hat connection with an alleged drug trafficking network in southeastern Alberta.Police sei...
Nov 04, 2019
Load management still hot topic with VanVleet, Lowry logging career-high minutes
TORONTO - Fred VanVleet would prefer nobody noticed the major minutes he's been logging this season. The Toronto Raptors guard is averaging a career-high 37.8 minutes as a starter through six gam...
Nov 04, 2019
No stone left alone ahead of Remembrance Day
Remembrance and respect were top of mind Monday for a group of students from Red Deer's St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School.The students were involved in a ceremony at Red Deer Cemetery as part of the na...
Nov 04, 2019 Darby Duncan, a grade nine student at St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School, places a poppy on the grave of a Canadian veteran during a ceremony held as part of the No Stone Left Alone program. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)