Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

BEIJING - Canada scored another multi-medal day at the Beijing Olympics, and it took just one event to make it happen. Max Parrot won Canada's first gold medal in Beijing with a dominant performance i...

Premier Jason Kenney hinted on Friday morning that COVID-19 restrictions and the Restrictions Exemption Program (REP) could be a thing of the past in the coming months. Kenney took to social media on ...

EDMONTON, AB. - As vehicle convoys continue to impede traffic in Southern Alberta (the LNN newsroom was notified of four Thursday afternoon alone), the level of frustration from the public is beginnin...

Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief P...

Today's COVID data is below...Dr. Deena Hinshaw said Thursday there are signs Alberta may be on its way out of the Omicron wave of COVID-19 and signalled a moving to an endemic approach is being consi...

A State of Local Emergency (SOLE) for the city of Red Deer will lapse on Feb. 15.Officials with The City says it will be allowed to lapse, "given the forecasted stabilization of the public health syst...

Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, will provide a live COVID update Thursday at 3:30.rdnewsNOW will have further coverage after the update is complete.

Members of the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce gathered Wednesday in-person for the first time this year for the organization's first luncheon of 2022. The event was held at Gasoline Alley's...

OTTAWA - Manitoba MP Candice Bergen is waking up with a new job today: unifying the Conservative caucus. The party's former deputy leader was elected by her colleagues to serve as interim leader after...

CALGARY, AB - To say that emergency first responders go through a lot is an understatement. That is why the Alberta Government has announced $1.48-million in funding that will aid several groups in su...