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MISSING: Joshua Hutton, 35, from Sylvan Lake
UPDATE: RCMP advise that as of April 24, Joshua Hutton has been located. He is safe.==Mounties in Sylvan Lake are turning to the public for help in locating a missing 35-year-old man.RCMP say there is...
Apr 23, 2020 Joshua Hutton (Photo: RCMP)
Spring community makeover to keep Lacombe beautiful
The City of Lacombe invites all residents to participate in a community-wide make-over this spring by cleaning up their yards and immediate neighbourhoods at a date and time that is safe for themselve...
Apr 23, 2020 (Photo: City of Lacombe)
Child advocacy centre provides 100 play boxes to hospital frontline staff
The Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre (CACAC) has found a unique, relevant, and impactful way to support workers at the Red Deer Regional Hospital by providing 100 Amped2Play ISOLOVEPLAY boxes to ...
Apr 23, 2020 (Photo: CACAC)
Provinces, feds will watch and learn from U.S. reopening efforts, PM suggests
WASHINGTON - Canada's federal and provincial governments will be watching closely for teachable moments as jurisdictions in the United States start to lift personal restrictions and reopen b...
Apr 23, 2020
Scheer refuses to acknowledge MP's controversial criticism of health officer
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has refused to address controversial comments by a member of his caucus who is also seeking to replace him as leader. Derek Sloan, a rookie MP from rural Ont...
Apr 23, 2020
Baseball Canada cancels 11 national championships due to COVID-19
OTTAWA - Baseball Canada has cancelled all its 2020 national championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision announced Thursday affects 11 national tournaments, from the Baseball Canada ...
Apr 23, 2020
Alberta Senator calls for post-pandemic economic recovery council
A senator from Alberta is calling on the Prime Minister to form a new council to look at the future of Canada's economy after the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Doug Black says the mandate of the Canadian...
Apr 23, 2020 Senator Doug Black (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Canada's COVID death toll passes 2,000; Trudeau pledges $1.1B for research
TORONTO - Canada's COVID-19 death toll passed the 2,000 mark on Thursday as scientists across the country scrambled to find ways to mitigate the pandemic in the form of a treatment or vaccine and...
Apr 23, 2020
Trudeau says military short-term solution to caring for seniors
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the military will respond to provincial requests for assistance at long-term care facilities. But he says the measure is a short-term solution and that Cana...
Apr 23, 2020
Feds pour $1.1B into COVID-19 vaccine development, tracking of cases
OTTAWA - The federal government will spend more than $1 billion to help develop, test and manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as to determine how widely the virus has spread through Canada, P...
Apr 23, 2020