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Thieves hit community and apartment mailboxes in Red Deer
City Mounties are investigating break-ins and theft of mail at a number of apartment and community mailboxes overnight this past weekend. RCMP received reports Saturday of attempted break-ins at apart...
Mar 26, 2018
Volunteers needed for 2018 Point in Time Homeless Count & Survey
Volunteers are wanted to survey persons experiencing homelessness in Red Deer to gather key information as part of the 2018 Point in Time (PIT) Count & Survey. The PIT count and survey serves as a...
Mar 26, 2018
Husky faces charges from 2016 oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River
CALGARY - A Saskatchewan mayor whose city’s water supply was interrupted for several weeks following a Husky Energy Inc. oil pipeline leak in July 2016 says he hopes environmental charges announ...
Mar 26, 2018
Mexico official: Iowa family died from water heater gas leak
MEXICO CITY - A prosecutor in Mexico said Monday that a gas leak in a water heater is suspected in the death of an Iowa couple and their two children last week. The head prosecutor of the Caribbean co...
Mar 26, 2018
Mountain Rose Women’s Shelter Association gets $1.9M from feds, province to expand capacity
The provincial and federal governments are investing approximately $1.9 million to increase the number of beds for women and children fleeing domestic violence in the Rocky Mountain House region. The ...
Mar 26, 2018
List of countries expelling Russian diplomats
LONDON - The United States and many Western countries announced they were expelling a total of more than 130 Russian diplomats, in a show of solidarity with Britain over the nerve agent attack of a fo...
Mar 26, 2018
Babysitter sentenced for leaving tot in burning Montreal apartment
MONTREAL - A Montreal woman who left a toddler unattended in an apartment where a fire broke out has pleaded guilty to unlawfully abandoning a child, criminal negligence causing a fire and obstructing...
Mar 26, 2018
Family for former soldier involved in murder-suicide challenge's friend's claims
HALIFAX - A spokesman for the family of a former Canadian soldier who killed his girlfriend and then himself in their Nova Scotia home last week is challenging recent assertions made by a friend regar...
Mar 26, 2018
Federal court dismisses B.C. First Nation's bid to block fish farm restocking
VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation has lost its court bid to prevent the restocking of an open-net salmon farm in its traditional territories off northern Vancouver Island. The ‘Namgis First Nation...
Mar 26, 2018
FTC, states increase pressure on Facebook on privacy
NEW YORK - U.S. regulators and state attorneys general are increasing pressure on Facebook as they probe whether the company’s data-collection practices have hurt the people who use its services...
Mar 26, 2018