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TORONTO - Canadian National Railways conductors, trainpersons and yardpersons have given strike notice ahead of a Tuesday deadline. The union, which represents 3,200 workers, provided the 72...

Bower Place is teaming up with the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre (CACAC) for the holiday season. Volunteers from the centre will be there for Santa's Arrival at Bower Place on Sunday, Nov. 17 ...

Red Deer County's Know to Grow project is conducting a survey to gather opinions on modern farming. The goal is to help urban residents and their farming and ranching neighbors in Red Deer County conn...

OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog warns that rougher economic waters will mean a deeper federal deficit, with no certainty on how much deeper. In a report Thursday, the parliamentary budget office...

Lacombe County is seeking feedback from the public on participation and communication in Lacombe County. A survey was inserted in each issue of the County News, and stakeholders can also access the on...

MADRID - Spain's government announced Thursday that Catalan poet Joan Margarit won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. Margarit, who is also an architect, h...

OTTAWA - The last group of former Liberal senators in Parliament's upper chamber are rebranding themselves as the Progressive Senate Group. The nine senators say they have adopted the new name to...

OTTAWA - A Quebec naturopath is not guilty of manslaughter or criminal negligence in the death of a patient, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Roger Matern, an 84-year-old with heart di...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The family of Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady says he has died of a heart attack at age 66. Cady's family says in a statement posted on the court's website that he died u...

The Salvation Army in Red Deer is once again running our annual Adopt-A-Family Program which provides Christmas assistance to seniors and families. Registration for the program began on November 12 an...