Olds News

A facility combining Olds Institute (OI), the chamber of commerce, Uptowne Olds and a visitor information centre should be open as early as next month, OI executive director Mitch Thomson says.

Olds deputy mayor Harvey Walsh is pleased with statistics that show that the town's population grew by 11.5 per cent to 9,184 in 2016 from 8,235 in 2011. Those figures are contained in a report by Statistics Canada, released last Wednesday.

BOWDEN - Nasty, blustery winter driving conditions are being cited as a "most likely" factor in the horrific three-vehicle crash last week on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway that claimed the life of a Calgary woman.

Olds RCMP are asking for your help to find suspects wanted in connection with an armed robbery at the Rocky Mountain Liquor Store. Police say the robbery occurred on Jan. 31 at about 11:15 p.m.

A plan for a new Olds residential subdivision has received the green light from town council. A bylaw approving the West View Area Structure Plan passed third reading during a town council meeting late last month.

Olds finished ninth in the province in a literacy competition. Under the competition, held on Jan. 27 (Family Literacy Day), libraries across Alberta encouraged citizens to read for at least 15 minutes.

Olds & District Chamber of Commerce president Stephen Dodwell has resigned, after being in the post for about a year.

The Town of Olds is wrestling with a request by an Airdrie-based clothing donation firm to allow it to exclusively have donation bins in the town recycling centre along 49th Avenue.

A man accused of dangerous driving in Bowden and Innisfail was scheduled to appear in Didsbury provincial court yesterday. Steven Wayne Gallant, 27, was arrested Saturday after police found him driving a vehicle without headlights on in Bowden.

Olds RCMP say no charges are anticipated against an elderly couple whose vehicle flew through the air and smashed into a garage and part of one house and hit another in Olds on Friday, Feb. 3. The accident happened at about 10 a.m.