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Red Deer's MPs say they'll donate legislated April 1 raises
Local MPs Blaine Calkins (Red Deer-Lacombe) and Earl Dreeshen (Red Deer-Mountain View) have released a joint statement saying they'll be donating their 2020 raise which comes into effect April 1.The r...
Mar 28, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Second Colorado Avalanche player tests positive for COVID-19
DENVER - A second player on the Colorado Avalanche has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced Saturday afternoon. The player is in self-isolation and all other Avalanche players and sta...
Mar 28, 2020
Alberta MLAs to reconvene March 31
Members of Alberta's Legislative Assembly will return to their desks this week in order to debate important legislation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Government House Leader Jason Nixon made the an...
Mar 28, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Trudeau: Those with symptoms won't be allowed to board domestic flights
Effective at noon eastern time on Monday, March 30, anyone displaying COVID-19 symptoms will not be allowed to board a flight within Canada or leaving Canada.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced th...
Mar 28, 2020 (Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld)
Former Sen. Tom Coburn, known as a political maverick, dies
OKLAHOMA CITY - Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma family doctor who earned a reputation as a conservative political maverick as he railed against federal earmarks and subsidies for the rich, ha...
Mar 28, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 11 a.m The federal government says it is working with its counterparts in Panama and a cruise line to get mor...
Mar 28, 2020
Feds working to get 248 Canadians stranded on COVID-19-infected cruise ship home
TORONTO - More than 200 Canadians remain stranded on a cruise ship off the coast of Panama where some passengers have tested positive for COVID-19 and four others have died. The federal governmen...
Mar 28, 2020
Ponoka closes playgrounds, postpones council meetings
The Town of Ponoka is the latest community to close playgrounds until further notice to help slow the spread of COVID-19.All playground equipment on public lands and schoolyards is now off limits."As ...
Mar 28, 2020
Girl Guide cookies available at Save-on-Foods
Save-On-Foods is sending boxes of Girl Guides of Canada's famous chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies to all 175 of its Save-On-Foods and Urban Fare locations to sell the cookies on behalf of Girl G...
Mar 28, 2020
Regions brace to fight rising flood waters and cases of COVID-19
OTTAWA - Flood-prone regions across the country are bracing to fight emergencies on multiple fronts as they plan for rising water and rising levels of COVID-19. In cities like Ottawa that have be...
Mar 28, 2020