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Airport CEO optimistic heading into New Year
Red Deer Regional Airport CEO Graham Ingham is feeling optimistic as 2019 winds down and 2020 is set to take flight.Among other things, Ingham says it remains a primary goal to bring back passenger se...
Dec 14, 2019 (Supplied)

Rebels claw their way past high-flying Tigers in 6-4 win
An exceptional special teams performance got it done for the Rebels in a 6-4 win over the Medicine Hat Tigers Friday Night at the Westerner Park Centrium. After killing off two early penalties against...
Dec 14, 2019 Photo: Rob Wallator

MISSING: Triston James Ruby, 33, of Ponoka
Ponoka RCMP say as of the morning of Dec. 16, Triston Ruby has been located.He is safe and well.
Dec 14, 2019

MISSING: Melvin Bailey, 72, of Ponoka
Ponoka RCMP say as of Dec. 16, Melvin Bailey has been located.He is safe and well.
Dec 14, 2019

Trump criticizes climate activist Thunberg after Time honour
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection "ridiculou...
Dec 14, 2019

EU leaders break stalemate over climate target, claim deal
BRUSSELS - EU leaders broke a deadlock early Friday and claimed a deal over a key climate target by committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, sidestepping the objections of Poland, one of the b...
Dec 14, 2019

UK's Johnson claims Brexit mandate as Tories secure majority
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament - a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to...
Dec 14, 2019

Grizzly bears move north in High Arctic as climate change expands range
Some unlikely neighbours are moving in around the northernmost communities of the Northwest Territories, across the icy tundra of Canada's High Arctic. Inuvialuit hunters and trappers say grizzly bear...
Dec 14, 2019

Ex-Sudan strongman al-Bashir gets 2 years for corruption
KHARTOUM, Sudan - A court in Sudan convicted former President Omar al-Bashir of money laundering and corruption on Saturday, sentencing him to two years in a rehabilitation facility. That's the first ...
Dec 14, 2019

Pricey trees and wild cats in an abandoned town; In The News for Dec. 12
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 12. What we are watching i...
Dec 14, 2019