Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

ZHANGJIAKOU, China - Canada's Marielle Thompson has won the silver medal in women's ski cross at the Beijing Olympics after finishing second in a drama-filled final. Thompson, from Whistler, B.C., mad...

BEIJING - Who else but Marie-Philip Poulin? The big-time performer who has made a career of thriving on hockey's biggest stages did it again Thursday in Beijing, helping Canada reclaim Olympic women's...

Red Deer Polytechnic officials have announced the institution will continue its Winter Term by welcoming more students, faculty and staff to resume additional in-person course and service delivery sta...

The Alberta Government is taking steps to ensure skilled labourers from abroad can join rural communities. Premier Jason Kenney announced the launch of the Rural Renewal Stream and the Rural Entrepren...

A central Alberta travel agent says the easing of restrictions set to take effect at Canada's borders later this month are good news for the industry.Babette Baskerville, independent travel agent with...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - ***Update - Additional individuals charged. A bail hearing marathon was held in Lethbridge Provincial Court on Tuesday for a group of protesters who were arrested after weapons and am...

The market for home sales in Red Deer last year was pretty stellar, and 2022 is off to a pretty decent start.According to the Central Alberta Realtors Association (CARA), 1,924 units were sold in 2021...

BEIJING - Charles Hamelin's final Olympic race was one for the record books. Hamelin, 37, capped off his Olympic career in golden fashion as he helped his teammates win the men's 5,000-metre short-tra...

Canada's Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced that COVID-19 border restrictions are easing.He says we are past the peak of the Omicron wave in Canada and some border restrictions can be lessened...

LETHBRIDGE, AB. - Tractors, trucks and other vehicles have begun to roll out of a Coutts, ending a blockade that paralyzed a U-S border crossing for more than two weeks.Protesters had been restricting...