Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Investigators are looking into the cause of a fire at a Red Deer business over the weekend.According to assistant fire marshal Shane Dussault, crews with Red Deer Emergency Services (RDES) were alerte...

The Red Deer Rebels grasped their 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings Saturday during the final minutes of action at the Peavey Mart Centrium. The victory was Red Deer's thrid in a row and gives them ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Polls have closed in Hungary's national election on Sunday in which pro-Putin nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban sought a fourth consecutive term. There were no exit poll...

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in suburbs of the capital as Russian soldiers withdraw and Moscow focuses its attacks elsewhere, includi...

Red Deer is one of five cities in Alberta to participate in a province-wide protest on Saturday to "ditch the draft" against Alberta's controversial Draft K-6 Curriculum.Public Interest Alberta, a non...

Officials with the Alberta government say they are no longer collecting the provincial fuel tax while oil prices are high.As a result, officials say drivers will save the 13-cent provincial fuel tax o...

Don't spoil your dinner this Saturday because the Food and Beverage Expo is back at Red Deer's Westerner Park."The show is about coming and discovering all the amazing businesses that operate here loc...

The Opposition NDP is calling on the Alberta government to release a report on automobile insurance profits. The annual report by the superintendent of insurance includes data on how much companies co...

Former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith is coming back to Alberta politics and says she will vote against Premier Jason Kenney at the upcoming United Conservative Party leadership review.Smith says she ...

First Nations, Inuit and Mtis residential school survivors, knowledge keepers, elders, and youth have wrapped up meetings with Pope Francis at the Vatican with a historic apology. The delegation was t...