Author Archives: rdnews@socastdigital.com

Last season marked the first time since 1966-67 that no NHL team fired its head coach during the season. Five bench bosses ended up getting let go in the spring, while Barry Trotz chose to leave the S...

LEDUC, Alta. - Buddy has gone up in smoke. The official cartoon cannabis spokesman for the City of Leduc, just south of Edmonton, only lasted about a week before the administration decided to roll him...

OTTAWA - A new report is warning about the federal government’s interest in using artificial intelligence to screen and process immigrant files, saying it could create discrimination, as well as...

A Drayton Valley man has been arrested in relation to an armed robbery last month in High Prairie. It was on August 22 at about 8 p.m. when a Mountie observed a male running from a liquor store in Hig...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve signalled its confidence Wednesday in the U.S. economy by raising a key interest rate for a third time this year, forecasting another rate hike before year’s end...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is writing off the second of two loan segments that helped finance a new stadium for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Premier Brian Pallist...

Red Deer’s Sheila Crouch has been selected as our rdnewsNOW “Dairy Queen Athlete of the Month” for July. Crouch is a talented Pickleball player who’s taken the sport to new hei...

Sylvan Lake Town Council has passed a new Cannabis Consumption Bylaw restricting the consumption of non-medical cannabis within the town. Once recreational cannabis becomes legal across Canada on Octo...

The Drayton Valley Thunder lost another close game Tuesday night at the Omniplex, 3-2 at the hands of the Lloydminster Bobcats. With the loss the Thunder fall to 2-3 on the season. Zac Gladu opened th...

The Toronto Argonauts have found themselves in a most unenviable position. The Argonauts (3-9) entered Week 16 of the CFL season third in the East Division, a whopping 10 points behind first-place Ott...