Category Archives: Business

Red Deer postal workers are angry and upset after being forced to return to work on Tuesday.For the first time in over a month, 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) returned t...

Red Deer home sales were lower in November when compared to the month before and the same month last year. According to the latest Market Update from Central Alberta Realtors Association, there were 1...

This week's highlightsEquity markets falter despite constructive backdropRate cuts, rate cuts, and possibly more rate cutsBank of Canada cuts rate by half-pointU.S. inflation ticked up to 2.7% in Nove...

While mail is set to begin moving again on Tuesday as Canada Post employees return to work, key "structural issues" at the centre of the month-long strike remain outstanding heading into the next phas...

The federal government has announced that on Saturday the Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax (GST/HST) break will be put into effect after it was passed into law.It is set to begin on Dec. 14...

The Canadian government is pushing to end the nearly month-long Canada Post strike. On Friday morning federal labour minister Steven MacKinnon asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to send the 5...

Red Deer Polytechnic and Exro Technologies Inc. introduced the first-ever Cell Driver Battery Energy Storage System on campus Thursday morning.The system, which is positioned just outside the Four Cen...

The City of Lacombe and its municipal council believe they've cooked up a way to allow more retail and office-based businesses in the local light industrial district.Before anything is approved, howev...

Town of Sylvan Lake council has approved the 2025 capital budget, 5-year capital plan, and 2025 interim operating budget.The 2025 capital budget was approved at $17,000,000 followed by the five-year p...

In Blackfalds' town council's regular meeting Dec. 10, multiple decisions with budget implications were brought to the table that found both savings and revenue opportunities for the town moving forwa...