Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Following an eight hour Multi-Year Budget meeting, Red Deer city council approved the 2022, or year two, capital and operating budgets, with adjustments, Monday evening. The 12 recommendations, driven...

OTTAWA - Unvaccinated travellers over the age of 12 won't be able to board a plane or train in Canada beginning today, and a negative COVID-19 test will no longer serve as a substitute for most people...

COVID-19 statistics for Nov. 29 are below...Premier Jason Kenney, Health Minister Jason Copping, CMOH Dr. Deena Hinshaw, and Dr. Verna Yiu, head of Alberta Health Services, addressed Albertans on Mond...

Central Albertans are being encouraged to take part in an annual event this week focused on giving to those less fortunate in our community.Giving Tuesday is described as an international day of givin...

There are no confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Alberta but the province is taking steps to stop any potential spread of it from occurring.Premier Jason Kenney said 156 Albertans ha...

MEDICINE HAT - A rare sighting of wildlife has popped up near Medicine Hat, one that hasn't been seen in the area for years.   An amateur wildlife photographer captured pictures of a grey wolf ea...

Alberta's chief medical officer of health says public health officials have contacted people who've travelled from one of the southern African countries of interest for the Omicron COVID-19 variant in...

A quiet street in Red Deer's Michener Hill neighbourhood is where a tipi calls home.Seemingly, it's the lone one on a residential property in the city, whereas many years ago, the land on which it sit...

Alberta's ombudsperson says it's simple: she can't legally investigate a complaint by four municipalities against the consolidation of EMS dispatch.The City of Red Deer, as well as Calgary, Lethbridge...

Officials with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) say dozens of front-line health-care workers will lose their jobs in Red Deer today (Friday, Nov. 26), as the UCP government and Alberta...