Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

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 ...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland plans to release an updated accounting of federal finances today and provide the government's economic outlook for the coming months. The government predict...

Fourteen surgical patients at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC) were diverted to Calgary and Edmonton over the weekend.Alberta Health Services says the situation occurred as result of trying t...

PROVINCIAL NUMBERSOver the past three days, Alberta Health confirmed a combined 863 new cases, with 373 on Friday, 288 on Saturday, and 202 on Sunday.There are now 4,182 active cases, up 123 from Frid...