Olds News

A man has pleaded guilty to a charge in connection with a sexual assault which took place July 14, 2017 at the Fas Gas in Olds. Meelad Samimi was charged after Olds RCMP investigated the matter.

Eleven members of the Olds Fire Department (OFD) are getting ready to undertake a daunting task that's become a tradition: climbing all 1,204 steps of The Bow tower in Calgary, Western Canada's tallest building, this Sunday.

Two Olds residents have combined forces to create a piece of art they hope will help the Humboldt Broncos and the surrounding community heal from the horror of the April 6 crash between the team's bus and a semi-trailer.

Lucinda Watkins is the Citizen of the Year and Tyler Larson is the Youth Citizen of the Year.

The Olds & District Chamber of Commerce's experiment with a "doubleheader," (a breakfast meeting and another one at lunch the same day on the same topic) went well enough that others might be held in the future, officials say.

After the tragedy that struck the Humboldt Broncos, people have been showing solidarity by putting a hockey stick out in front of their homes.

The Town of Olds, along with Mountain View County and in conjunction with Rotary clubs in Olds and Lethbridge, is sending a fire truck to a Mexican community. The truck, a 1993 model, was declared surplus a couple of years ago.

The community of Olds is expressing its solidarity with Humboldt junior hockey players, their families and Humboldt residents in the wake of a tragic crash involving a bus and semi-trailer that claimed the lives of 16 people and injured about 13, inc

Olds High School's Interact Club raised about $4,500 net via its annual fundraising banquet. That's down from last year when about $6,000 was raised. The Interact Club is a junior Rotary Club.

About $5,200 has been raised via the Boob Tour comedy show for Olds resident Bonnie Supernant, who suffers from bladder cancer.