Category Archives: Red Deer

Lacombe County council has unanimously selected councillors John Ireland and Dwayne West to serve as reeve and deputy reeve, respectively.Both will serve a one-year term, through the first quarter of ...

A petition calling for the provincial government to halt the transition from the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) to the Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP) made its way to ...

Students across the province, including in Red Deer, staged a walkout on Thursday in support of Alberta's 51,000 teachers who were recently forced back to work by the provincial government. This comes...

As part of Red Deer Polytechnic's Perspectives: Canada in the World annual series, they welcomed Canadian political journalist Andrew Coyne on Wednesday as the featured speaker.The Globe and Mail colu...

Red Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan, who is also serving as Alberta's Parliamentary Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, has been given a mandate letter from the premier for that latter role.The letter,...

Kimberley Goddard, KC, is returning to central Alberta as a justice of the Alberta Court of Justice.Goddard, who grew up in Red Deer, will take on the new role effective Nov. 17.She earned her bachelo...

Newly re-elected mayor of Innisfail, Jean Barclay, says the next four years are about keeping the town's momentum going.In an interview with rdnewsNOW, the now third-term council member says that mome...

The Rotary Club of Red Deer will hold its annual Black Tie Bingo: "Dress to Dazzle" fundraising event on Thursday.The 30th annual edition is set for Oct. 30 at the Red Deer Resort & Casino in bene...

Red Deer Polytechnic has joined the inaugural consortium for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workforce Readiness program, aiming to prepare students for the future of work.The program, a national ini...

Arrest Made Following E-Bike Theft The Lacombe Police Service has charged a Lacombe resident in connection with the theft of an e-bike from Burman University earlier this month. On Oct. 16, police rec...