Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the provinces, territories and municipalities have now received more than $2.85 billion promised months ago for health care, transit systems and classr...

About 15,000 people are expected in Maskwacis for an upcoming visit by the Pope.The Government of Alberta says that on July 25, there will be restricted access to the QEII Highway, as well as to Highw...

Editor's note: This is an archived rdnewsNOW story written by Troy Gillard in 2020, which we are republishing on July 14, 2022, the 22nd anniversary of the deadly Pine Lake tornado.--Harvey Kelts hope...

Two people are dead following a plane crash in Mountain View County Wednesday.On July 13, 2022, at 4:50 p.m., Didsbury RCMP were notified of a small aircraft that had gone down in a field near Range R...

TORONTO - Hockey Canada says it is in the process of making changes. Whether those moves will be enough to satisfy the general public, fans, federal government and corporate sponsors remains to be see...

OTTAWA - Canada's drug regulator approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers, making it the first vaccine approved for that age group in the country. Health Canada now says the Mo...

Tony Sowan thought the woman he was looking at, laying on a median in the middle of a busy Red Deer thoroughfare, was dead.Thankfully, she wasn't; so he helped her, then penned a song about the experi...

Red Deer RCMP can confirm that Edward Deter has been located. The RCMP thank the media and the public for their assistance.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) now says a tornado in central Alberta last week was an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale.The strongest a tornado can be rated on the EF Scale is EF5.Th...

Red Deer saw a decline in median employment income and experienced the fastest growth in young adults living with their parents, according to the recently released 2021 Census data provided by Statist...