Category Archives: Red Deer
Public tips lead to arrest
PENHOLD- On October the 8 at 9:43 a.m., Innisfail RCMP received a report of a shed being broken into at the Innisfail Public Library and some items were taken. Later that day someone staying at the Da...
Oct 18, 2019
Student Vote shows youth eager to have voices heard
More than one million Canadian elementary and secondary students are casting ballots this week as part of Student Vote Canada 2019.The vote, which will engage more than 9500 schools nationwide, is mad...
Oct 17, 2019 Trevor Selent (left) and Connor Jacobson, grade 12s at Notre Dame High School, took part in Student Vote Canada 2019 on Thrusday. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)
Drug charges pending after driver nabbed for hit and run in Sylvan Lake
Some alert citizens helped Sylvan Lake RCMP arrest a man wanted following a hit and run incident this morning. Mounties responded to a 911 complaint of a hit and run with a parked vehicle in the Fox R...
Oct 17, 2019
Food missing from public art display highlights local hunger issue: United Way
Officials with United Way Central Alberta say the disappearance of food from one of their public art displays at a city recreation facility this week truly highlights the issue of hunger in our commun...
Oct 17, 2019 Officials with United Way Central Alberta say food found missing from a public art display set up at the Dawe Recreation Centre recently and highlighting the issue of hunger in our community, truly demonstrates the issue is real in central Alberta.
RCMP eyeing efficiencies at Sylvan Lake, Rimbey detachments
RCMP are looking to explore efficiencies and deliver a better policing model through a proposed pilot project recently shared with Sylvan Lake Town Council. At their meeting on Tuesday, council heard ...
Oct 17, 2019
Red Deer activists join call to end poverty in Canada
On the cusp of Monday's federal election, volunteers with the Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance (CAPRA) took to the streets of Red Deer to call for an end to poverty in Canada.With Oct. 17 be...
Oct 17, 2019 Harrison Blizzard, Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance member (left), is joined by Jason Steele (right) from The Hub on Ross on Thursday, to pass out bags of apples donated by Central Alberta Coop encouraging central Albertans to urge the next federal government to implement a plan to end poverty in Canada. (Photo: rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)
City hopeful for important funding from provincial budget
The City of Red Deer has released its wish list for next week's provincial budget."We will be watching specifically for the Province's intention regarding support for the hospital, a shelter and addit...
Oct 17, 2019
Balanced budget proposed for Lacombe next year
The City of Lacombe is looking at the possibility of a balanced budget next year.On Tuesday, city administration presented council with the 2020 Provisional Operating Budget that includes revenues and...
Oct 17, 2019
United We Roll to counter-protest Thunberg climate strike at Legislature
A climate strike planned for the Alberta Legislature on Friday featuring Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has sparked a 'call to action' by supporters of Alberta's oil and gas industry.Glen Carritt wit...
Oct 17, 2019 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Malarchuk brings message of hope to Schizophrenia fundraiser
Clint Malarchuk continues to make the best of the chance he's been given. Remembered most for returning to action just 10 days after having his jugular vein sliced by a skate while goaltending for the...
Oct 17, 2019