Category Archives: Red Deer

Registration for Kindergarten and Pre-K at RDPSD opens later this month
Red Deer Public School Division is reminding parents that registration for Kindergarten and Little Learners Pre-Kindergarten is right around the corner.Registration for the 2025-26 school year will op...
Jan 09, 2025

Blackfalds RCMP make second arrest in relation to 7-11 robbery
Blackfalds RCMP have made a second arrest in relation to a Nov. 11, 2024, robbery at the 7-11 in Blackfalds. On Jan. 8, 2025, 21-year-old Red Deer resident Quinlan Louis Bradford was arrested by the B...
Jan 09, 2025

Sirens for Life and 450 Challenge call for new blood and plasma donors
January bleeds red at Canadian Blood Services, which is currently holding two donation campaigns throughout the month to increase awareness and help meet its needs, Sirens for Life and the 450 Challen...
Jan 09, 2025

PowerSchool student data breach impacts Red Deer Public and other North American schools
A widespread PowerSchool data breach has impacted schools across North America and other parts of the world, compromising students' personal information. That's according to a letter from Red Deer Pub...
Jan 09, 2025

City-Wide Agency Fair to give families a look at student support services
Families interested in learning more about the community agencies in Red Deer and how they support students are invited to attend Red Deer Public Schools (RDPS) City Wide School Council's Agency Fair....
Jan 08, 2025

Saving Grace Animal Society overwhelmed following influx of animals in January
Saving Grace Animal Society is seeing an unprecedented number of animals brought into their care since the start of the new year. Through the first week of January, the animal rescue located in Alix, ...
Jan 08, 2025

Red Deer RCMP searching for suspect involved in hit and run
Red Deer RCMP are asking for the public's help in their investigation of an alleged hit and run that happened Tuesday.On Jan. 7, at approximately 12:20 p.m.. police say a white 2000 Dodge Ram had alle...
Jan 08, 2025

Red Deer MPs, Earl Dreeshen and Blaine Calkins, plus others, react to Trudeau's resignation
Both of Red Deer's longtime MPs, Blaine Calkins and Earl Dreeshen, agree that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation this week changes nothing. Neither were made available for one-on-one intervie...
Jan 08, 2025

Fourth vehicle in nine days falls through Sylvan Lake ice
Another vehicle has fallen though the ice at Sylvan Lake. This incident marked the fourth time in nine days a vehicle has broken through and police are calling on the public to stay off the ice with h...
Jan 07, 2025

Olds High School students receive scholarship for academic and social achievements
Three students in the Chinook's Edge School Division have been awarded the Julian Sacher Scholarship, worth $1,500 each. The students, Leyton Fazakas, Liam Morgan and Sage Petersen, are all Olds High ...
Jan 07, 2025