Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Sylvan Lake will host its first annual Ice Dragon Boat Festival in a few weeks.The racing will be competitive, but is open to anyone and everyone who wants to give it a try, explains Monique Pummings,...

Environmental groups are welcoming Parks Canada's buyout of two businesses in Jasper National Park's Tonquin Valley, a scenic destination also used by vanishing caribou herds. Carolyn Campbell of the ...

Red Deer's emergency services responders, including firefighters and RCMP, are challenging citizens to donate blood in support of this year's Sirens for Life campaign.The initiative, which has been ar...

Alberta parents looking to get their children more protection in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will have new options starting today.The province says the Pfizer bivalent vaccine booster - effective ag...

HALIFAX - Capping off a year that saw Hockey Canada mired in scandal over its handling of sexual assault allegations, the world junior hockey championship in Halifax and Moncton, N.B., opened last mon...

OTTAWA - Nour Alideeb and her partner are trying to decide what to do with the hundreds of dollars they're now saving on child care for their two-year-old son. Parents are seeing their child-care fees...

With warm weather sweeping across the province, many are looking forward to spending summer nights in Alberta's provincial parks.While Alberta Parks does offer year-round online reservations for speci...

A Red Deer man is reminding fellow residents of keeping wildlife safety in mind while out in natural areas or for that matter, even residential and suburban areas. David Meredith, a resident of Anders...

Residents are invited to take part in an upcoming Ukrainian Koliadky Party; a free event put on by Red Deer Public Library (RDPL).The party goes from 1-3 p.m. this Saturday, January 7 at the library's...

Climate change is causing mild winter temperatures to become more frequent across the country, one extreme weather expert says. Parts of southern Ontario have seen unseasonably warm temperatures and r...