Red Deer

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

B & E at Lacombe Centre Mall

LACOMBE- On October 12, police were dispatched to the Lacombe Centre Mall after a break and enter to ones of its businesses. The mall had been entered through the front entrance and a grinder used to ...

Oct 17, 2019

North Red Deer Regional Wastewater System receives 2019 Public Works Project of the Year Award

LACOMBE- The North Red Deer Regional Wastewater System has won the American Public Works Association (APWA) Alberta Chapter's Project of the Year Award, for Projects over $10 Million.The award was pre...

Oct 17, 2019 (L-R) Peter McDowell, Past President, APWA Alberta Chapter; Todd Simenson, Vice President, Regional Leader (Alberta North & Territories), Stantec; Matthew Goudy, Chief Administrative Officer, NRDRWWSC; Mayor Richard Poole, NRDRWWSC Vice Chair; and Ken Wigmore, NRDRWWSC Chair, with the 2019 APWA Project of the Year Award.

Lacombe Police lay over 20 drug & firearms charges

LACOMBE- On October 14, Lacombe Police initiated a traffic stop in the area of Highway 2A for a traffic offence. Both occupants of the vehicle were found to have outstanding warrants. During a search ...

Oct 17, 2019

Pedestrian hit by train in Blackfalds dies

One person is dead after they were hit by a train Wednesday afternoon in Blackfalds. The fatal collision occurred during the 4 p.m. hour at the rail crossing at Broadway Avenue and Gregg Street.The pe...

Oct 16, 2019 (Photo submitted)

Red Deer Dream Centre denied by Municipal Planning Commission

Red Deer's Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) has denied an application to turn a former downtown into a drug and alcohol treatment facility.The decision regarding the proposed Red Deer Dream Centre ...

Oct 16, 2019 Members of the public turned out Wednesday to hear whether the Municipal Planning Commission would approve an application to turn a former nightclub into a drug and alcohol treatment centre.

New head of Red Deer RCMP Downtown Unit confident they're making a difference

The new head of the Red Deer RCMP Downtown Unit is confident that the work they've been doing since launching a year ago is making a difference. Cpl. Dwayne Hanusich came to Red Deer with his family s...

Oct 16, 2019 Cpl. Dwayne Hanusich is the head of the Red Deer RCMP Downtown Unit. (rdnewsNOW/Troy Gillard)

Mounties respond to incident at Collicutt Centre

City Mounties responded to another incident at the Collicutt Centre on Wednesday. Police were called during the noon hour after Red Deer RCMP Cpl. Karyn Kay says threats were made by one person toward...

Oct 16, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)

Red Deer County providing tax relief for shallow gas producers

Red Deer County Council is complying with a request from the Alberta government to provide property tax relief for shallow gas producers this year.The request from Alberta Municipal Affairs calls on m...

Oct 16, 2019