Red Deer

Motion to condemn conversion therapy leads to emotional council debate

Red Deer city council found itself divided Monday night over whether to formally condemn the controversial practice of conversion therapy.The issue came to council through a notice of motion tabled tw...

Mar 03, 2020

Former Deer Park fire hall eyed for commercial use

The former fire hall in Red Deer's Deer Park neighbourhood could soon be home to a coffee shop. Council passed first reading Monday night to allow a number of additional uses for the building at 39 St...

Andrew Snook Mar 02, 2020 A rendering of what the developer would like to see the old Deer Park fire hall building become, as seen in the Red Deer city council agenda for March 3, 2020. (IMC Construction)

RDC funding cut 7.4% by provincial budget

Red Deer College is losing a big chunk of funding following the latest provincial budget. Dr. Peter Nunoda, RDC President, says the budget tabled Thursday includes a 7.4 per cent reduction to their Ca...

Mar 02, 2020

Suspects in March 2019 murder in Grandview to be tried separately

Two people charged in a Red Deer homicide last year will now have their charges dealt with separately.On Feb. 28, a preliminary hearing was to take place in Red Deer provincial court for both Quentin ...

Mar 02, 2020 Quentin Lee Strawberry (Left) and Jennifer Lee Caswell (Right) each face second degree murder and assault causing bodily harm charges in the death of 45-year-old Joseph Alfred Gallant on Mar. 29, 2019 in Red Deer's Grandview neighbourhood.

Energy company apologizes for sexually suggestive Greta Thunberg decal

CALGARY - An Alberta energy services company says its management accepts full responsibility for a decal the business distributed bearing its logo beneath a sexually suggestive cartoon appearing to de...

Mar 02, 2020 (The Canadian Press)

City of Red Deer hiring enumerators for 2020 census

The City of Red Deer is recruiting for enumerators to carry out the 2020 municipal census.Opportunities are available for enumerators to work in the field, going door-to-door, to count and collect bas...

Mar 02, 2020

Three-year run for Red Deer's Catapult to end this month

A Red Deer-based business incubator program for budding entrepreneurs is shutting its doors, effective March 31.Catapult launched in 2017 as a two-year provincially-funded pilot project under the NDP,...

Mar 01, 2020

Red Deer middle school students embark on another epic science trip

It's the biggest trip Red Deer Public School District offers - 88 kids go with 22 teacher and parent chaperones to one of the most exotic and unique places in the world. The Ultimate Science Trip (UST...

Josh Hall Mar 01, 2020 (Photo submitted)

Public sector workers rally in Red Deer against government cuts

From doctors to educators, and across the public sector spectrum, around 200 people showed up at Red Deer City Hall on Saturday to voice their frustrations with the United Conservative government.Thei...

Feb 29, 2020 Attendees listened to keynote speakers and held up signs at Saturday's 'Alberta-wide Protest' which took place in several cities including Red Deer. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Police warn against vigilantism following altercation in Ponoka

The police investigation continues into a large altercation that took place in Ponoka earlier this week.Ponoka RCMP say the incident happened in the early morning hours of February 22 in the 4800 bloc...

Feb 29, 2020