Tag Archives: Health

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

OTTAWA - Health Canada is hoping to use private-sector dollars to fight opioid addiction because "conventional efforts are not enough" to address the national health crisis, newly ...