Olds News

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is providing $250,000 to Olds College in support of on-campus wellness programming.

The Olds Municipal Library is holding its first-ever Library Giving Day campaign. This one-day online event, part of an international library fundraiser, will occur on Wednesday, April 10. A pop-up kiosk will be set up at Westview Co-op from 10 a.m.

A Drumheller man faces at least three charges in connection with a truck police say was stolen in Olds.

Olds is a good place to grow hemp, a variety of cannabis, which can be used to create many useful products, a speaker says. That was the message from Jan Slaski, a principal researcher of plant sciences for Innotech Alberta.

Two influential projects through Alberta Health Services (AHS) are making a difference for students in Chinook’s Edge School Division.

BOWDEN -- Likely no one was happier to see town council choose a new chief administrative officer than Jacqui Molyneux, the town's chief financial officer (CFO). Council formally chose Greg Skotheim for that post during its March 25 meeting.

BOWDEN -- Bowden has a new chief administrative officer (CAO). He is Greg Skotheim, currently manager of public works and infrastructure with the Town of Didsbury. Council ratified Skotheim's appointment during its March 25 town council meeting.

A six-year-old girl's letter after a stay at an Olds hotel has changed the way that hotel chain deals with plastic cups, cutlery and dishes.

Four Olds residents have been nominated for the 12th annual Red Deer & District Community Foundation’s Women of Excellence awards.

BOWDEN -- Town councillors have finalized Bowden's 2019 budget. The balanced budget calls for operating costs and expenditures each totalling $3,133,312.42.