Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

The Town of Innisfail has been selected as sole host of the 2022/23 Energy Futures Roadshow program.This means a series of public workshops will be delivered in Innisfail, in partnership with the Ener...

VANCOUVER - Eight people have been rescued from office space located below a collapsed rooftop parking lot in east Vancouver, but fire officials say it's still too early to tell if everyone is account...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons industry and technology committee is set to meet today to discuss launching an investigation into the Rogers Communications Inc. outage. Last Friday's outage lasted more ...

CALGARY - The federal government has expanded a program to include the agricultural sector in coming up with solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bib...

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...