Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

OTTAWA - An environmental group is calling for Imperial Oil to be charged over releases of toxic wastewater from its Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The call from Greenpeace comes as executiv...

Additional ambulances dedicated to non-urgent patient transfers hit the road in central Alberta this week, as a way of easing EMS pressures and improving response times. According to Alberta Health Se...

An R-C-M-P officer killed in a crash while responding to a call was honoured today at a regimental funeral in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Constable Harvinder Singh Dhami, a member of the Strathcona County...

A provocative billboard in south Red Deer aims to highlight larger than appropriate class sizes in Alberta.The Alberta Teachers' Association paid for the billboard as part of the third phase of its pr...

Playing for a berth in the WHL's Eastern Conference final, the Red Deer Rebels lost 4-2 against the Saskatoon Blades Wednesday night at the Peavey Mart Centrium. In the first period, the Blades' Justi...

EDMONTON - A zoo employee is recovering after she was bitten by a Burmese python Tuesday morning. Debi Winwood, a spokesperson for Edmonton Valley Zoo, says the woman received immediate first aid from...

Average rents continue to rise in Red Deer.According to the latest Rental Report from rentals.ca, the average rent for a one-bedroom unit in Red Deer last month was $1,193 per month, up 2.7 per cent f...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative Party government is releasing a plan that it hopes will take the province to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The plan, which describes itself as "aspiration...

Red Deer home sales last month increased from the month before but came in lower than March of last year.According to the latest market update from Central Alberta Realtors Association (CARA), there w...

OTTAWA - Some 39,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees went on strike as of Wednesday as part of wider labour action by the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The CRA says the strike will mean certain s...