Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

The latest National Rent Report is out, courtesy Rentals.ca, and Red Deer's average rent has gone down.From November to December, the average cost of a one-bedroom place went from $953 to $912. That's...

The Red Deer Rebels melted the ice with a fiery 6-1 win over the Swift Current Broncos at the Peavey Mart Centrium Wednesday night.The first period saw the Rebels Jhett Larson open the scoring by pott...

On Wednesday, the Canadian Press announced its newsmaker of the year: the children who didn't come home from residential schools.The newsmaker of the year is selected by a survey of editors across the...

The Alberta government is taking immediate actions and clarifying health measures to protect Albertans and the health-care system against the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says people will have to be careful as they finalize their Christmas plans this year, now that the highly transmissible Omicron variant is spreading through Cana...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released a fall economic statement today that outlined a better-than-expected economic rebound, but also billions more in spending, including on the respons...

The Red Deer Dream Centre is on schedule for an opening in the first quarter of 2022, according to Executive Director Dr. Vincenzo Aliberti."It's not just sobriety. Sobriety is just: you're stopping t...

A central Alberta hockey player has been selected to play for Team Canada at the upcoming World Junior Hockey Championships in Edmonton and Red Deer.Following a four-day selection camp that included a...

Maskwacis RCMP have located 36-year-old Ramona Deschamps and would like to thank the media, and the public for their assistance.

VICTORIA - The discovery of unmarked graves at a former residential school in the B.C. Interior and the countrywide awakening it set off have been chosen as Canada's news story of the year by editors ...