Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

For the first time since 2017, the Red Deer Riggers are Sunburst Senior AAA Baseball League champions.The Riggers defeated the Edmonton Cubs 10-5 on Sunday to win Game 5 in the best-of-five series.Red...

The Sylvan Lake Gulls season came to an end in heartbreaking fashion on Saturday night.They fell 5-4 to the Regina Red Sox at Gulls Stadium in a deciding Game 3 to lose the Western Canadian Baseball L...

The Red Deer RCMP announced Bradley Velton has been found and is safe. The police would like to thank the public for their assistance.

UPDATE: Aug. 19, 2025, 12:10 p.m. The RCMP Major Crimes Unit is advising that Ashton Deschamps was located and arrested in North Battleford, Sk. Mounties say he will appear in court and then be escort...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's disappointed Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants weren't able to reach a deal after eight months of negotiations. He is urging bot...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are meeting in Ottawa today. A federal government official says there likely won't be an announcement coming out of the meeting betwee...

CAMROSE - Voters head to the polls today in a rural Alberta byelection that's getting an unusual level of national attention. Battle River-Crowfoot was left vacant when Conservative Damien Kurek stepp...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says U. S. President Donald Trump is "creating the opportunity to end Russia's illegal war in Ukraine." Carney is praising the U.S. government's efforts to end the ...

TORONTO - Passengers across the country scrambled to deal with the fallout as labour strife between Air Canada and the union representing its 10,000 flight attendants left planes grounded. Major Canad...

Lacombe County has announced replacement work on a bridge located at NW 33-41-27 W4M (tributary to Whelp Brook) will begin next Thursday, Aug. 21.The project will cause sections of Township Road 415B,...