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Parking at Alberta hospitals made temporarily free
Starting Friday, April 3, there will be no fee for healthcare workers or the general public to park at Alberta Health Services (AHS) facilities.Many health-care workers and physicians are working from...
Apr 02, 2020 Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge. (Lethbridge News Now)
Second-degree murder charges in shooting deaths of two Alberta men on rural road
BONNYVILLE - Police have laid charges in the fatal shooting of two men on a rural road in eastern Alberta last week.Anthony Bilodeau, who is 31 and from Glendon, Alta., is accused of second-degree mur...
Apr 02, 2020
Veer proud of Red Deer’s response to COVID-19 pandemic
Mayor Tara Veer says she's proud that Red Deer has taken emergency planning very seriously, and as a result is fully prepared to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic."We have engaged in not only pandemic p...
Apr 02, 2020 rdnewsNOW file photo
Judge won't delay Wisconsin election but extends voting
MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's presidential primary over the health threat from the new coronavirus, but he ordered that people be given an extra six days...
Apr 02, 2020
RDC postpones Convocation Ceremonies
Red Deer College says that after much consideration it as decided to postpone Convocation Ceremonies that had been scheduled for June 5. College officials say in a release the decision is one of the l...
Apr 02, 2020
Hockey players in the minors face uncertainty, job fears
Tim Harrison made the long drive from South Carolina to his home just south of Boston with a lot on his mind. The ECHL season had just been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the 26-ye...
Apr 02, 2020
Breton, Ponoka RCMP collaborate to recover stolen vehicle
=== Two men have been arrested and charged after a vehicle was stolen Wednesday from a residence in Ponoka County. It was at about at 10:48 a.m. when Ponoka RCMP responded to a complaint that a vehicl...
Apr 02, 2020
Appeal court nixes fresh lobby probe of Aga Khan in Trudeau vacation case
OTTAWA - An appeal court says there's no need for the lobbying commissioner to take another look at whether the Aga Khan broke the rules by giving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&nbs...
Apr 02, 2020
Chinook’s Edge keeping educational assistants until June 1
Chinook's Edge School Division says it is waiting until June 1 before laying off its educational assistants and hourly support staff following the temporary K-12 funding cut announced last weekend by ...
Apr 02, 2020
The race to trace the spread of COVID-19 in Canada using disease trackers
TORONTO - Increasingly frustrated health officials say they are prepared to take more aggressive measures to track and contain people with COVID-19 as the number of sick and dead continues to soar. An...
Apr 02, 2020