Category Archives: Red Deer

Innisfail man charged in connection to crash near Sundre last summer
Sundre RCMP has laid charges related to a three-vehicle crash which happened last summer.It was about 1 p.m on Aug. 6 on Highway 27 near Range Road 52, just east of town, where police say a westbound ...
Jan 09, 2021

Resources available for Red Deer's homeless
People who are homeless in Red Deer are being encouraged to take advantage of local resources.Bredin Centre for Career Advancement and the Red Deer Native Friendship Society both offer assistance, and...
Jan 08, 2021

Alberta adds COVID-19 units to vaccine priority list; 1,183 new cases reported Friday
The provincial government has announced that vaccine appointments will be offered to health-care workers in medical, surgical and COVID-19 units in Alberta starting immediately.This means about 3,300 ...
Jan 08, 2021

Red Deer property assessment notices in the mail
Red Deer property owners can expect to receive their 2021 property assessment notices in the mail over the next few days.City officials say Red Deer's residential assessment values saw an average decr...
Jan 08, 2021

Building permit values up in December
The City of Red Deer says building permit applications increased in both quantity and value last month when compared with the same month the year prior. According to the latest stats, 69 building perm...
Jan 08, 2021

Red Deer man wins a cool $1 million
Bradley Kwasny may have seen blue when he checked his Western Max lottery ticket, but he certainly wasn't feeling blue when he discovered he won one million dollars."The clerk scanned my ticket and al...
Jan 08, 2021

Red Deer unemployment rate dips below 10%
The unemployment rate for the Red Deer region slipped to 9.6 per cent in December, according to numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada. That's down from 10.4 per cent in November 2020 and three ...
Jan 08, 2021

COVID creating ICU overflow, cancelled surgeries at Red Deer Regional Hospital
Already struggling with the capacity issues it's been dealing with for years, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre continues to be pushed to its very limits by COVID-19."I've never seen it this bad, and ...
Jan 08, 2021

Red Deer down five to 252 active COVID-19 cases
Alberta reported another 968 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.That's out of 14,833 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 6.5 per cent.There are now 13,298 active cases in Alberta, ...
Jan 07, 2021

Organizer of Pro-Trump rally in Red Deer charged for violating health act
RCMP has charged the organizer of a Pro-Trump rally in downtown Red Deer on Wednesday for violating the province's Public Health Act. It was at about noon when City Mounties were called to Ross Street...
Jan 07, 2021