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With calving season underway, and bitter winter temperatures continuing to plague the region, ranchers are being reminded to take precautionary steps to make sure newborn calves hit the ground running.

Ask the mayor of Red Deer County and the reeve of Mountain View County what they hope to see come out of the upcoming provincial budget and they'll tell you the same thing. The reintroduction of cash for the provincial local road bridge program.

The province's process to prevent a repeat of last June's disastrous flooding came to the region last week with meetings between Red Deer River basin municipalities, as well as an update from an engineering company contracted to deliver a report to t

With a new school secured for Sylvan Lake the Chinook's Edge School Division is turning its attention to the needs of Carstairs-area students. But it will be patient.

Red Deer County solidified its support for the Red Deer Regional Airport Authority (RDRAA) with a three-year modified deal at its recent council meeting. The three-year contract, effective Jan.

The public hearing into proposed changes to Mountain View County's Land Use Bylaw was held last week, with several members of the public at large voicing opinions on new provisions related to the future cultivation of medical marijuana in the county.

They will be chatting up a storm at this year's Canadian Agricultural Safety Week.

The Chinook's Edge School Division has put a new information security management system in place, a move officials say protects students, teachers and others making use of digital technology in schools.

For more than 25 years Westward Ho Campground manager Gord Toews has watched the Little Red Deer River threaten to spill banks in the spring and flood the popular recreation facility east of Sundre.

Thefts of automated teller machines (ATM), which plagued Central Alberta last summer and fall, have spread to the province's northeast but RCMP insist the desperate burglars are not the same ones who terrorized this region.