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Red Deer drivers can expect delays on westbound 67 Street as lanes close for bridge maintenance starting Tuesday, September 5. Maintenance of the westbound 67 Street Bridge above the C.N. railway will...

City of Red Deer officials say a blue-green algae bloom has been identified in a pond at the Three Mile Bend off-leash dog park. On Wednesday, City staff observed a red/milky/murky looking substance i...

Recently at National Aboriginal Week celebrations, I witnessed a family walking by in their hijabs celebrating Eid, the end of the month-long Muslim fast of Ramadan. One of the Indigenous participants...

Last week's quarterly fiscal update painted a bleak picture for Albertans, and shone a light on how poorly this NDP government is managing our province. Debt-servicing costs have soared to a whopping ...

Austin Pratt knows this is a big year. After struggling to find his groove through much of his sophomore season, the Lakeville, Minnesota native was passed over at the NHL Draft in June. His path to p...

BERLIN - A German foundation established to track down cultural assets stolen by the Nazis says it’s starting a new project to investigate items taken in the post-war Soviet occupation zone and ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. job market hit a lull in August, with employers adding a solid but less-than-robust 156,000 jobs and holding back on meaningful pay raises for most workers. Friday’s jobs r...

TORONTO - A young man killed in a northwest Toronto mall was chased into the centre and shot dead amid a throng of shoppers, police said Friday as they searched for as many as four people in connectio...

BRACKLEY, P.E.I. - A pair of endangered piping plovers whose eggs were threatened by the tide at a P.E.I. beach had an unlikely savour - a pizza pan. Kerry-Lynn Atkinson, a resource management officer...

The Lacombe Rams opened the 2017 high school football season by making a statement Thursday night. The Rams posted 39 second half points in a 42-17 win over the defending league champion Notre Dame Co...