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CP Holiday Train celebrates 20 years of collecting food and raising funds for local food banks
The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train will soon set out once again to entertain hundreds of thousands of people, celebrating 20 years of collecting food and raising funds for food banks across North...
Oct 10, 2018
Missing plane with two men aboard found 31 years after it vanished
SALMON ARM , B.C. - The search for a small plane from Alberta missing in the Clearwater area of British Columbia has instead turned up a small plane that disappeared in 1987. The Joint Rescue Co-ordin...
Oct 10, 2018
Marijuana legalization may go more smoothly than you think: Washington governor
VANCOUVER - Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has a message of reassurance for Canadians who may fear that legalization of recreational marijuana next week will come with a wave of negative consequence...
Oct 10, 2018
AFSC expands lending program
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) is expanding its lending program to offer more assistance to spur on Alberta's growing agricultural industry. Under the new program, agricultural prod...
Oct 10, 2018
Lacombe County public engagement process recognized
Following a successful review of Lacombe County's Municipal Development Plan (MDP) and Land Use Bylaw (LUB), the Alberta Professional Planners Institute (APPI) recognized the County's two year-long pr...
Oct 10, 2018
Alberta’s largest bottle drive to support community groups
Alberta Depot has announced the largest bottle drive in Alberta with three days of facilitated bottle drives across the province to shine a spotlight on Albertans helping Albertans. The Great Prairie ...
Oct 10, 2018
Manitoba outlines ads, rules for civil servants as legal pot looms
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government was still scrambling Wednesday to prepare for the federal legalization of recreational cannabis next week. Public service announcements were launched, a drug-testing...
Oct 10, 2018
Alberta RCMP remind drivers to protect themselves against vehicle theft
EDMONTON - As the weather cools, auto theft heats up. In a recent RCMP analysis, the 42nd week of 2017 was the most active in terms of reported auto thefts in Alberta RCMP detachments. That is why, in...
Oct 10, 2018
Former MLB star Lenny Dykstra indicted for drugs, threats
A grand jury in New Jersey indicted former baseball star Lenny Dykstra on drug and other charges stemming from an altercation with an Uber driver in May. The indictment handed up Tuesday charges the f...
Oct 10, 2018
Minivan travelling wrong way on QEII crashes into car near Ponoka
Thankfully, no one was killed when a minivan travelling in the wrong direction on the QEII Highway near Ponoka Tuesday night collided with a car. The crash happened just after 10 p.m. just north of th...
Oct 10, 2018