Category Archives: Red Deer and Area

Red Deer County is working toward clearing up some of the red tape that comes with setting up a medical marijuana grow operation. Council gave first reading Tuesday to a land use bylaw amendment that ...

Red Deer County Council has approved a proposal for some streets in the Poplar Pointe Estates subdivision to be named after some local World War I and World War II veterans. The approved street names ...

Red Deer RCMP Traffic Services is once again letting drivers know where they can expect to see photo radar set up over the next couple of weeks (Aug. 16 - 31): Playground zones: Niven Street, Jordan P...

Kids and their parents took part in the eighth annual First Rider bus safety event on Tuesday. Targeting students in Kindergarten and Grade 1, along with any other students who will be riding a school...

Sylvan Lake RCMP say efforts are continuing today to recover a 43-year-old male who went missing after his boat overturned near Sunbreaker Cove. Shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, police say three adu...

We’ll soon find out whether Tara Veer wants to occupy Red Deer’s mayor’s chair for a while longer. The “Veer for Red Deer” campaign sent out a media release Tuesday morni...

A young man charged after a taxi driver in Red Deer was assaulted late last year will spend the next two years behind bars. It was on the afternoon of Nov. 17, 2016 when police say a man called for a ...

A million-dollar fraud case dating back nearly five years is finally heading to trial next week. Blackfalds RCMP began investigating in October 2012 after a former bookkeeper at Silverado Oilfield Ven...

A rainbow flag now flies at Red Deer College in honour of Central Alberta Pride Week. College officials, students and community members gathered outside the college’s main entrance Monday mornin...

The Transportation Safety board will be investigating the crash of a small plane Sunday afternoon in Lacombe. It was at about 5:30 p.m. when the Lacombe Police Service, EMS and the Lacombe Fire Depart...