Category Archives: Red Deer
Oriole Park students help create adaptations of Kerry Wood stories in new literacy project
Oriole Park students are embarking on a new literacy project to adapt the books of Red Deer author Kerry Wood. On Wednesday, students gathered in the gymnasium to learn about their role in the project...
Jan 31, 2024
Water-sharing negotiations to start this week in Alberta, municipalities doing dought planning
Alberta's Drought Command Team has received the go-ahead to negotiate with major water license holders to create water-sharing agreements in the Red Deer River, Bow River, and Old Man River basins. Pr...
Jan 31, 2024
First participant of Red Deer's Drug Treatment Court graduates with new life
It was a full courtroom on Monday at the Red Deer Court of Justice, not for trial, but for triumph. Those in the seats cried, not tears of sadness, but of joy. And the future of the man who stood at t...
Jan 31, 2024
'Roll Over, Beethoven' from the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra hits Bo's Feb. 25
This Feb. 25, experience the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra (RDSO) within the intimate confines of Bo's Bar & Stage when the group presents Roll Over, Beethoven.The show, which will feature a mixture...
Jan 31, 2024
Sundre man ordered to stand trial in 1976 homicide
A Sundre, AB, man charged with non-capital murder in connection to a 48-year-old cold case has been ordered to stand trial. Ronald James Edwards, 74, was ordered to stand trial in Cochrane Court of Ju...
Jan 31, 2024
Sentencing scheduled for pair charged in County of Wetaskiwin fatal fire
Sentencing is scheduled later this winter for two of three people charged in a fatal fire in the County of Wetaskiwin two-and-a-half years ago.Linden Joseph Lee Buffalo, 34, of Maskwacis, and Donovan ...
Jan 31, 2024
Man convicted in Ponoka homicide sentenced to life in prison
A man charged in a Ponoka homicide over three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison.Ryan Jake Applegarth, 31, of Ponoka, was sentenced in Wetaskiwin Court of King's Bench on Jan. 26, 2024, af...
Jan 31, 2024
UPDATE: LOCATED, Kirby Mindle, 63, of Red Deer
Local Mounties say Kirby Mindle has been located safe. Red Deer RCMP would like to thank the public and the media for their assistance. -- Download the rdnewsNOW mobile app on Google Play and the Appl...
Jan 31, 2024
Two Calgarians arrested in connection to Ponoka B&E
Ponoka RCMP have arrested two Calgarians following a break and enter investigation.It was just after 7 a.m. on Jan. 27 when Ponoka RCMP received a report of a break and enter in progress at a commerci...
Jan 30, 2024
Sylvan Lake RCMP seeking large carving stolen from front yard
RCMP in Sylvan Lake say a large custom carving dubbed 'Moose on the Loose' is being sought after being stolen from a resident's front yard on Lakeshore Drive.RCMP received a report of the theft on Jan...
Jan 30, 2024