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Winnipeg man pleads not guilty to letter-bomb charges, fights DNA evidence
WINNIPEG - A man accused of sending letter bombs in the mail, including one that cost his ex-wife’s lawyer her hand, pleaded not guilty Monday to five counts of attempted murder and to several e...
Sep 11, 2017
Smile Cookies return in support of Reading College
Grab your loonies and run to Tim Horton’s — it’s Smile Cookie time again. In Red Deer, every cent from the sale of the cookies will go towards Red Deer Public Schools’ Reading ...
Sep 11, 2017
Wildfire west of Burnstick Lake now being held
As of September 10, the wildfire burning west of Burnstick Lake is not anticipated to grow past expected boundaries. According to a release from Wildfire Information Officer Joan Simonton, 33 firefigh...
Sep 11, 2017
Chess federation fuming over treatment of Canadian grandmaster at World Cup
MONTREAL - Canada’s chess federation says it has filed a formal complaint over the treatment of a Canadian grandmaster at a signature event just minutes before he was to play one of the biggest ...
Sep 11, 2017
Trial next year for young man charged in fatal Canada Day crash
A young man charged in a crash east of Red Deer that killed two people will go to trial next year. It was late on the night of July 1, 2016 when a vehicle with five occupants crashed east of Red Deer ...
Sep 11, 2017
Aides to Ontario ex-premier McGuinty plead not guilty in gas plants scandal
TORONTO - Two top political aides to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty pleaded not guilty Monday to charges over the destruction of internal emails about the Liberal government’s costly can...
Sep 11, 2017
Unprecedented measures taken as wildfire bears down on Waterton
WATERTON LAKES NP – In terms of scale, Waterton's size doesn't rival some of its more famous big brothers but, it's the smallest national park to be named a World Heritage site and it is known a...
Sep 11, 2017
Bank of Canada defends itself for staying silent before interest rate hike
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is defending itself amid questions about its public silence ahead of an interest-rate increase last week that caught many analysts by surprise. The response came after BMO ...
Sep 11, 2017
Jail time for Red Deer man in Rimbey truck theft attempt, Innisfail gas and dash
A Red Deer man charged in an attempted truck theft near Rimbey and a gas and dash in Innisfail has been sentenced to nearly two years behind bars. The owner of a rural property near Rimbey recorded vi...
Sep 11, 2017
Feds say lack of airstrips, infrastructure slowed hurricane evacuations
OTTAWA - Federal ministers expressed sympathy Monday for the hundreds of Canadians affected by Hurricane Irma as well as their worried families back home, even as they sought to explain why more wasn&...
Sep 11, 2017