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As it did in 2017, Lacombe County's fire permit season will start a month earlier on March 1, coinciding with changes made by the provincial government. Under Lacombe County's Fire Protection Policy, ...

When singer-songwriter Kinley Dowling released a song two years ago detailing her prom night rape, she didn’t set out to become an advocate for survivors of sexual assault. But Dowling said her ...

LACOMBE COUNTY- Rural crime was one of the leading issues raised during Lacombe County's Municipal Development Plan and Land Use Bylaw review. It was also highlighted as a concern during recent meetin...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Indian actress Sridevi drowned in her hotel bathtub after losing consciousness, the Dubai police said in a statement Monday, though two police officials said she was also...

HALIFAX - The sentencing hearing for a sailboat captain caught smuggling 250 kilograms of cocaine from the Caribbean to a Nova Scotia boatyard has been delayed yet again - this time for a change of la...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-26-2018

HOPE, B.C. - Graham Zillwood has witnessed numerous crashes outside his front window on a notorious stretch of British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway, but nothing like the chain-reaction crash Su...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A Slovak investigative reporter and his girlfriend were shot dead in their home in an attack likely linked to his reporting on tax evasion, Slovakia’s top police officia...

Four stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 26 --- ATWAL CLAIMS HE BOWED OUT OF TRUDEAU EVENT IN INDIA A man with an attempted murder conviction who was invited to a reception with Justin Trudeau in Ind...

TORONTO - The sentencing hearing for a former top Ontario political aide caught up in the province’s gas plants scandal heard glowing accounts of his character on Monday as the prosecution calle...