Category Archives: Red Deer and Area

LACOMBE- Singer Gord Bamford raised a total of $393,534 at his 10th Annual Gord Bamford Charity Golf Classic on August 9 and 10. The tournament and gala have now raised over $3,000,000 for BamfordR...

RED DEER- The next Riverlands construction project is utility work and road construction on the riverfront portion of 45 Street. Work is scheduled to start Monday, August 14, and there will be road cl...

LACOMBE- John Weidner couldn't believe his eyes when he checked his lottery ticket and discovered he had won $127,022.80 on the July 8 LOTTO 6/49 draw. "I checked my ticket on the selfchecker first,"h...

RED DEER- Temporary road and lane closures, due to construction, will impact traffic in the city over the next few weeks. The 67 Street/Johnstone Drive roundabout is nearing completion, and temporary ...

Monday 1:46 p.m. The special air quality statement issued for Red Deer and central Alberta on Sunday due to smoke drifting in from wildfires in B.C. has ended. — (Monday, August 14, 7:26 A.M.) A...

An eighth school is nearing completion in Afghanistan through A Better World Canada’s 100 Classrooms project. Azalea Lehndorff, project founder, said the only things left to be done on Project J...

Thankfully, no one was killed in a serious crash Saturday morning south of Ponoka. The collision on the QE II Highway near the intersection at Highway 604 happened at about 9:45 a.m. RCMP say a passen...

Tragedy at Gull Lake Saturday afternoon. Blackfalds RCMP and emergency services were dispatched at about 1 p.m. to an accidental drowning of a 57-year-old-woman at the lake. Mounties say the victim wa...

Tools for School in Red Deer saw a little over 2000 backpacks given out last year, and that need hasn't decreased this year. Darcy Ouellet, fund development officer with Women's Outreach, said the inc...

“Iconic.” “Wow factor.” That’s how Red Deer College president and CEO is describing the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre. On Friday, members of the media were given a f...