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Alberta has seen a slight increase in livestock theft over the past year. According to RCMP livestock investigators, a total of 625 head of cattle went missing in 2015.

“Do you need to go to the woodshed?” Those words carried great power at one time. Not many years ago parents wielded authority and spankings were a definite force in discipline.

The Clearwater Trails Initiative (CTI) has for a number of years worked towards developing a multi-faceted trail stewardship program that fosters cooperation among users, industry and government.

With the provincial government only several weeks away from releasing its education budgets to school boards across the province, the Chinook's Edge School Division is scrambling for funding options to buy new buses if new monies don't arrive.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA and Wildrose Party house leader Nathan Cooper says the provincial government may have been right to expand its cabinet from 13 to 19 ministers. The new cabinet was unveiled last week.

There's one main theme in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Nathan Cooper's reaction to the provincial government's cabinet shuffle: the need for stability in various departments.

Four hundred more traffic tickets were issued by Mountain View County community peace officers in 2015 than in 2014, the policies and priorities committee heard Feb. 3.

It's an event like no other, lifting the art community to new heights from coast to coast. Art Battle Olds is back -- bigger and better than ever. And in 2016 it's all in support of the Olds and District Hospice Society and Hope 4 MVC Kids.

My grandchild has entered a family with a long history of strict, structured upbringing. There was sure and swift correction, but never a lack of love. She has no concept of these memories and traits that form her grandmother, though.

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