Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

The Government of Alberta has revealed the first details of its new organization that will be focused on mental health and addictions services. The organization will be known as Recovery Alberta and w...

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating an in-custody death in Red Deer.On March 25, 2024, at 10:56 p.m., Red Deer RCMP were dispatched to a residence on 50 Ave for complai...

COCHRANE, Alta. - Horns blared along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary on Monday as a protest against the hike in the federal carbon price slowed traffic to a crawl. Hundreds of protesters, man...

The Town of Stettler has officially launched the Clean Energy Improvement Program, in partnership with Alberta Municipalities. The Clean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP) is a financing resource that ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says premiers would rather complain and "make political hay" out of his federal carbon pricing program than present an alternative to reduce greenhouse gas emiss...

Canada looks set to dodge a recession despite the ongoing downward pressure from higher interest rates, Deloitte Canada said in its economic outlook report. A number of worrisome trends are still weig...

The Tuesday, April 2, 2024 regular city council meeting will start with a two hour closed meeting at 9:30 a.m. City officials say the open portion of the council meeting will begin at approximately 12...

OTTAWA - The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here's some questions answered about what this could mean for you. Who pays the carbon price? Canada has two different carbon...

Red Deer RCMP advise that Nash and Amanda Patterson have been located safe. Mounties thank the media and the public for their assistance. -- Download the rdnewsNOW mobile app on Google Play and the Ap...

Lightning did not strike a second time Saturday night in game two of the Red Deer Rebels' and Medicine Hat Tigers' opening round WHL Playoffs Eastern Conference quarterfinal.The Rebels once again fell...