Red Deer Polytechnic recognized 47 students who graduated from the Bachelor of Science in nursing program with a pinning ceremony last week.The institution says on Dec. 10, they held the ceremony on the main campus, which symbolizes the students' move from students to nurses ready to contribute to the healthcare system...

The Red Deer Christmas Lights Tour is back, courtesy of the incomparably dedicated Jim and A.J. Elliott.There are several options, as per usual, including: a highlights route, a short route, and the full tour, along with segmented routes for the north, southwest, east, and central parts of town.You can find the maps fo...

The Red Deer District Chamber of Commerce says Red Deer County's draft budget is focused on the fundamentals.CEO Frank Creasey also said in a release that it contains disciplined spending, predictable taxation, and core infrastructure along with service levels which keep the region competitive."Those priorities ma...

The City of Red Deer has announced a change in approach to its dynamic staffing policy.They announced on Monday that they will reduce overtime costs in Red Deer Emergency Services as part of the 2026 budget, which was approved by city council last week.Council approved $2.8 million for overtime, and the city said it'll...

Alberta's early-learning and child-care fees will remain at $15-a-day through to 2027 as it works with Ottawa to firm up a more permanent deal.The two jointly announced an extension on the current deal, with the federal government providing Alberta more than $1.17-billion dollars in funding.It will extend both the earl...

Alberta RCMP removed 50 impaired drivers from the roads on Saturday, Dec. 6 as part of their role in National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day.Of the 50 drivers, 28 received Immediate Roadside Sanctions FAILS, 13 received WARNS, and six novice or commercial drivers were removed for IRS ZEROES."These statistics are...

Alberta's teachers are accusing the province of bad faith bargaining over the recent strike.Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers' Association, says they have filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board against the government's bargaining agent.Schilling says during the labour standoff, the go...

Elections Alberta is getting $6.7 million in extra funding to handle the sudden outburst of recall petitions against legislature members.A legislature committee unanimously granted the funding at a meeting today.Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure requested the extra money because his office is managing 21 active re...

Two advocacy groups fighting the Alberta government on transgender laws say they are switching tactics to continue their battle in court.The renewed challenge from the groups Egale and Skipping Stone comes one day after Premier Danielle Smith's government used the Charter's notwithstanding clause.The clause allows gove...

Alberta MLAs Jennifer Johnson and Shane Getson are planning to build on a year of engagement with U.S. state legislators at the Council of State Governments National Conference in Chicago. That's according to Alberta government officials who say the MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka Jennifer Johnson and MLA for Lac Ste. Anne-Park...

Canada Post says the millions of Canadians who write to Santa Claus with their wish lists will get a response this year. A month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers last year meant Old Saint Nick couldn't respond to letters, but kids were as...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... McGuinty 'confident' Canada will hit NATO spending targets Defence Minister David McGuinty says he's confident the federal government will hit its NATO defence spe...

OTTAWA - Canada is injecting tens of billions of dollars into defence as it looks to ramp up spending to levels not seen since the Cold War - both to meet its NATO commitments and to juice the domestic economy. But it remains to be seen whether Nationa...

Four months, 50 applications, two interviews, no job. The story of 21-year-old political studies graduate Lauren Hood might sound familiar to others in her generation. "In my mind, after completing the four years and getting my degree, I didn't think i...

VANCOUVER - Young customers and families filter in and out of Foglifter, a bustling café in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, ordering croissants and lattes. Barista Nicholas Schorn says many, especially millennials, are open about their ritual...

The Canadian Press has been speaking with young people about the financial challenges facing their generation - a tough job market, unaffordable housing and goals that seem out of reach. 'WAITING FOR EVERYTHING TO WORK OUT' A few hours into a night out...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach was "a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State," Australia's federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett s...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people. The military said in a statement on social media that t...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A small plane crashed in central Mexico while trying to make an emergency landing Monday, killing at least seven people, Mexico State Civil Protection Coordinator Adrián Hernández said. The accident took ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration said Monday in a court filing that the president's White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security. The filing came in response to a lawsui...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Authorities knocked on doors and scoured yards Monday in search of any video or other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before ...

TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) - Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle on Monday after a small section of it failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order covering parts of three suburbs, an offic...