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Normandeau School seeking sponsorship to help send kids to camp
Teachers and staff at Normandeau School in Red Deer are hoping you can help them send some kids to camp this summer. Monique Stennes-Koot is a Gr. 7 & 8 Math and Art teacher at Normandeau and is s...
May 14, 2018
New Democrat MP who pleads guilty in pipeline protest says he has no regrets
VANCOUVER - New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart says he knew he’d face legal punishment when he violated an injunction at a Kinder Morgan work site but he has no regrets about protesting the expansi...
May 14, 2018

Accused in $10M fraud case requests jury trial
A Red Deer man accused of using ponzi schemes to steal millions of dollars from investors has requested a jury trial. Joshua James Tenhove faces charges of laundering the proceeds of crime, fraud over...
May 14, 2018

Ottawa to assess impact of climate change on Nova Scotia's land link to Canada
AMHERST, N.S. - Ottawa says it will study ways to protect the 275-year-old dikes that connect Nova Scotia to the rest of Canada from being washed away by rising sea levels, storm surges and other effe...
May 14, 2018

Winning $2M lotto ticket sold in Alberta
There's a new lottery millionaire in Alberta. A ticket sold in the province won the $2 million Western 649 jackpot on the Saturday, May 12 draw. Officials say the winning ticket was sold somewhere in ...
May 14, 2018
B.C. Sikh man invited to state event in India charged with uttering threats
SURREY, B.C. - A man who caused a furor when he attended an event during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s state visit to India this year has been charged with uttering threats in Surrey, B.C. Mar...
May 14, 2018

Sexual assault victim tells Halifax judge about suicide attempts, PTSD
HALIFAX - She was 17 and in her first year of studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax when she met him, an 18-year-old classmate originally from Calgary. Over the course of 72 hours in September 20...
May 14, 2018

Charges dropped in 2017 Mustang Acres shooting
Charges have been withdrawn for a man accused in a shooting incident at a home in north Red Deer last year. Hol Dominick Garang, 26, was facing six firearms-related charges along with two counts of as...
May 14, 2018

Margot Kidder, Lois Lane in the 'Superman' franchise, dies
LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Margot Kidder, who starred as Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the “Superman” film franchise of the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died. Franzen-Davis Funeral H...
May 14, 2018

3-year-old girl removed from parents following Calgary cocaine bust
Alberta’s integrated police force says they removed a three-year-old girl from a potentially dangerous situation following a traffic stop in Calgary. An investigation is underway after a search ...
May 14, 2018