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RED DEER- The Red Deer area unemployment rate began 2018 the same way it ended 2017. The local jobless rate for January was 5.5%, unchanged from December. The Alberta unemployment rose from 6.9% in De...

Western Hockey League (WHL) Friday Red Deer Rebels 7, Edmonton Oil Kings 2 (Game Story) Saturday Edmonton Oil Kings 4, Red Deer Rebels 3 (Game Story) Monday Red Deer Rebels @ Prince George Cougars - 2...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through so...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland mother says the school system re-victimized her daughter and at least two other girls by allowing a male student who allegedly sexually assaulted them to briefl...

OTTAWA - The CBC should not have been ordered to remove stories identifying a murdered Alberta girl from its online archives, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The high court made the 9-0 decisio...

MIAMI - A Florida woman says an airline told her to flush her hamster down an airport toilet because the emotional support rodent wasn’t allowed to fly with her. The Miami Herald reports before ...

LETHBRIDGE – In the last year-and-a-half, 379 certificates have been handed out by the provincial government, allowing victims of family violence to end their leases early, without financial pen...

Backcountry skiers, snowboarders and snowshoers are being asked to stay out of avalanche terrain in Alberta and British Columbia. A special avalanche warning is in place for Banff, Yoho, Kootenay, Jas...

HALIFAX - Former New Democrat MP Peter Stoffer issued a series of public apologies Friday for behaviour he acknowledged was perceived as demeaning or inappropriate, saying he never intended to insult ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A painting previously thought to be an 18th-century copy of a work by artist Jan Steen is actually an original by the Dutch master, a museum announced Friday. Researchers at t...