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COCHRANE- On Feb. 26, at approximately 6:30 p.m., RCMP received a call of a body on Hwy 8 southeast of Cochrane. On Feb. 27, an autopsy was completed at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Cal...

LETHBRIDGE- Last year was not Alberta's strongest from an economic standpoint, but things should improve somewhat in 2020.According to a new report from the Conference Board of Canada, real GDP fell b...

RED DEER- In an intimate theatre setting, high school students will perform the feel-good musical comedy "Sister Act" on March 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 at 7 p.m., including a matinee performance on Marc...

PONOKA- The Town congratulates the following winners in our photo contest held earlier this winter. Richard Bone who won first prize for his photo of the Ponoka Stampede fireworks and midway. There wa...

Here is a list of reactions shared after the 2020 Alberta Government was tabled on Thursday.=== Travis Toews, President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance"Budget 2020 continues our focus on cre...

OTTAWA - The Senate has voted to suspend Sen. Lynn Beyak a second time over derogatory letters about Indigenous Peoples posted on her website. Senators have approved a report from the upper house...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he will make a renewed push for compensation for families of people who died in the Ukraine International Airlines crash on a th...

CALGARY - An Alberta woman says she has complained to the RCMP about a decal bearing an energy services company's logo below a cartoon depicting what appears to be the sexual assault of 17-y...

TORONTO - Ontario now has a sixth confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, and while it is the first instance in the province of human-to-human transmission, health officials say the risk is still low...