Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

The federal government is providing over $100 million to help return unproductive Alberta farmland to its original forested state.Corey Hogan, parliamentary secretary to Canada's natural resources min...

OTTAWA - Health-care advocacy groups and associations representing doctors and nurses are in Ontario's cottage country this week, trying to ensure health care remains a top priority for premiers. The ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with a delegation of U.S. senators this morning who are in Ottawa to discuss the ongoing trade conflict between Canada and the U.S. A media advisory ...

OTTAWA - Unionized workers at Canada Post begin voting on the Crown corporation's latest contract offer today. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is urging they reject the proposal. Canada Post is a...

A power outage in north Red Deer the evening of Monday, July 14 was caused by a bird on a power pole.The outage occurred around 5 p.m. and affected areas of Pines and Normandeau more significantly, pl...

Construction is well underway on the Broadway Avenue Reservoir Expansion Project in the Town of Blackfalds.On Tuesday afternoon, government officials including Blackfalds Mayor Jamie Hoover, Lacombe C...

If you're taking in the sights and sounds of Westerner Days this week, make sure to stop by the Rotary Club of Red Deer Sunrise booth and get your 50/50 ticket. As recently as two years ago, the jackp...

A Sylvan Lake man charged in a residential break-in and arson fire in Kneehill County nearly two years ago, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail. Joseph Vincent, 31, was sentenced in Dr...

CALGARY - The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says a Calgary police officer has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder after the occupants of a van were shot dead following a slow...

OTTAWA - Just over a month after King Charles expressed his support for a "strong and free" Canada in a visit to Ottawa, he invited Canadian soldiers to staff the ceremonial mounted troop which guards...