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Controversy over a proposed multi-million dollar motorsports park in Mountain View County is ongoing.

Recent bear encounters in Kananaskis Country have prompted members of the Mountain View BearSmart Society to advise people in the area to be vigilant.

Thirty-three shotgun enthusiasts took part in the 23rd annual Bob Brown Memorial Trap Shooting Tournament at the Lone Pine Clay Target Club east of Olds on July 30-31.

Red Deer County council has approved a plan for the municipality to provide subdivision and planning services to the Village of Delburne. The approval came by way of motion during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

Tougher penalties for distracted driving took effect this year but more than seven months into 2016, one local police official says people are still focusing on other things besides the road ahead. Sgt.

The announcement last week by Interpol that they've arrested a man suspected of leading a major Internet scam ring highlights the need for businesses and residents across the region to remain constantly on guard for fraud, says Olds Chamber of Commer

Red Deer County is now connected to the new 211 service.

“The past is a bucket of ashes,” wrote American poet and radical Carl Sandburg in his great poem Chicago. Early in his career, Sandburg was a member, organizer and journalist for the Wisconsin Social Democratic party.

When my parents, Elden and Helen Spicer, married in late 1944, they didn't give much thought to their unfolding future, where they would live and make their home over time. Mom was already working as a “hired girl” as she called it.

More than a dozen search and rescue (SAR) personnel from Drumheller, Strathmore, Calgary, Olds, Sundre and elsewhere have taken part in a six-day training course at Cipperly's Pond Campground south of Olds.