Category Archives: Local News

  Cenovus Energy has announced a $650,000 donation to support Indigenous student success programs at Lakeland College. The investment will assist Indigenous students throughout their college jour...

  Gas stations across the province are getting an early start on raising the price at the pumps ahead of the Easter long weekend & summer season. As of Wednesday, March 29, increases have bee...

  Red Deer RCMP are investigating a shooting in the Mountview neighbourhood Wednesday morning. At 8:22 a.m., RCMP responded to a report of shots fired at a residence near 38 Street and 41 Avenue ...

  The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is hosting a town-hall meeting in Fort Chipewyan on Wednesday to discuss water quality in the community. In an RMWB post, the Municipality said they ha...

    The Mtis Cultural Centre being built at McDonald Island Park is being put on hold. In a March 25 post on the McMurray Mtis Facebook Page, a letter to members read that they do not have s...

    Plans for the 2023 Westerner Days Fair & Exposition in Red Deer have been announced. From July 19-23, 2023, the fair will once again feature a midway, pony chuckwagon races, and a wi...

  Northern Alberta youth have greater access to mental health supports with the opening of a four-bed youth inpatient psychiatry pod at Grande Prairie Regional Hospital. The new youth inpatient p...

On Monday, March 27th, there will be a procession, followed by a regimental funeral for Constable Travis Jordan and Constable Brett Ryan, the two EPS officers slain on-duty on March 16th. The processi...

The City of Beaumont says one of it's community peace officers was threatened while writing a parking ticket. The officer was issuing a ticket on an illegally parked vehicle in the Montrose Estates ne...

    A 16-year-old boy who fatally shot two officers at an apartment complex one week ago had been apprehended in November under the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for assessment...