Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

The province is providing an additional $16 million in funding towards government-owned affordable housing units.The investment is on units not currently in use across Alberta, and will include repair...

Red Deer is now just four months from welcoming the world's best curlers who'll be in town to compete in the Grand Slam of Curling 2024 Co-op Canadian Open.Officials, along with local Olympian Jocelyn...

Check your tickets, Medicine Hat Lotto Max players. A ticket purchased in Alberta outside of Calgary or Edmonton won the $17-million jackpot on Tuesday's draw.The Western Canadian Lottery Corporation ...

Roughly 85 men in Red Deer dressed in their finest ruby red heels on Wednesday for the 'Walk A Mile in HER Shoes' fundraising event in downtown. The event aims to raise funds and awareness for The Out...

CALGARY - More than 250 people, mostly children, have been infected in an E. coli outbreak linked to 11 daycares in Calgary. Twenty-five are in hospital. Six of those patients are on dialysis, which i...

Trial dates have been set for two Wetaskiwin residents charged in the death of a young Ponoka man last year.Adam James Cook, 28, and Morgan Maslin, 21, are scheduled for a three-week trial in Wetaskiw...

Red Deer Mounties have determined alleged threats towards a local high school this week have turned out to be unfounded.On Tuesday evening, school administration received reports of a threat made agai...

CP Rail (Canadian Pacific) has given the green light for the City of Lacombe to apply for whistle cessation at three of five rail crossings in the community.The move follows an inspection completed in...

OTTAWA - The union representing WestJet cabin crew is demanding an apology from the airline after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre spoke on the public address system of a recent flight. A video ci...

Red Deerians can walk this week to raise funds for a grand reason. On September 16, the second annual Grand Parade will be held in the city, alongside 31 other communities across the country, to suppo...