Local News

A 30-year-old man who repeatedly punched a woman in the head during a confrontation in a Didsbury residence a year ago has been ordered to complete community service hours.

The Olds and Red Deer agricultural societies will each receive $142,850 from the provincial government as part of announced $2 million in funding to ag societies around the province.

Suicide levels in Alberta have reached record levels, with men three times more likely than women to take their own lives, according to new statistics obtained by the Gazette.

Nationwide operating practices for shale hydraulic fracking operations introduced by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) for its members on Jan. 30 failed to impress the Alberta NDP's environment critic.

Plans to lease the Westward Ho campground to Red Deer operators have fallen through.

Red Deer County is still collecting feedback from the public to determine what to do with a 100-year-old bridge purchased by council in 2010.

Didsbury Search and Rescue (DSAR) has taken possession of a new command vehicle, replacing a unit that had “reached the end of its road,” according to Lorna Oltrop, director of training for DSAR.

U.S. firm Constellation Energy has announced plans to build a two-unit natural gas-fired plant at the former Champion Hay Processing Facility, near the crossing of Highway 582 and Rge. Rd. 42 in Mountain View County.

Fifteen barley producers from across Canada are being recognized for their excellence in producing malt barley during last year's harvest.Frank Hamel, of Old Seed Potatoes Hamel Farms Ltd.

Mountain View County council has rejected a lower-cost steel option and decided to go with a standard concrete design for the replacement bridge on Big Prairie Road.Council last week accepted the lowest bid of $2.