Health

Provincial funding to continue for School Nutrition Program

Some great news for local school districts regarding a program that provides daily nutritious meals for thousands of Alberta students.The provincial government has announced it will continue funding t...

Sep 17, 2019 Aeid Falih and Sidra Smaisem enjoy a spaghetti lunch at Fairview Elementary School, thanks to the Province's School Nutrition Pilot Project. (2017)

Red Deer girl over the moon to meet astronaut hero

A young Red Deer girl can soon check another item off her bucket list.In late August, 11-year-old Magdalena Kehler emailed Dr. Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian female astronaut to go to space. The q...

Sep 13, 2019 Magdalena Kehler, 11, with Red Deer Regional Health Foundation CEO Manon Therriault at the hospital on Friday where the youngster received tickets to see and meet with Dr. Roberta Bondar on Sept. 23. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Planning continues for Red Deer Dream Centre

One of the people behind the Red Deer Dream Centre - a proposed 49-day treatment facility - hopes the community will recognize how badly the project needs to happen.The proposed centre is described as...

Sep 12, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Snuffing out vaping at Red Deer schools

The City of Red Deer, in partnership with Red Deer Public Schools, Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools and cole La Prairie, is enforcing vaping at Red Deer high schools. Officials say local schools are...

Sep 12, 2019 (Photo: Associated Press)

Hospice expansion nearly complete

The $5.2 million expansion to the Red Deer Hospice is nearly complete, on-time and on-budget. Val Hilario, Expansion Campaign Coordinator for the Red Deer Hospice Society, says they will take possessi...

Sep 12, 2019

Upcoming AHS health workshops

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is inviting local individuals to attend supportive health information workshops that are helping Albertans make positive adjustments to their lifestyles.The workshops are...

Sep 11, 2019

Province announces funding for 4,000 treatment spaces

The Alberta government says it's funding 4,000 addiction treatment beds and spaces, outpatient services and medically assisted detox spaces. It's part of the $140 million dollars for addiction and men...

Josh Hall Sep 11, 2019

Red Deerians talk supervised consumption at town hall meeting

Red Deerians came out in droves to share their impassioned thoughts on an issue being hotly-debated not only in our city, but across the province. Nearly 300 people packed into the Santano Room at the...

Sep 10, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Troy Gillard)

Film screening in Red Deer for World Suicide Prevention Day

World Suicide Prevention Day is on Tuesday and local advocates say the act of preventing someone from going down that path is a community effort.To mark the day, Suicide Information and Education Serv...

Sep 09, 2019

Alberta's child advocate calls for changes to segregation, use of pepper spray at young offender centres

EDMONTON - Alberta's child advocate wants the province to decrease the use of segregation and pepper spray in young offender centres.Del Graff says in a report that Alberta needs legislation similar t...

Sep 09, 2019 Del Graff (Photo: The Canadian Press)