Olds News

An Olds resident is in the running for a 2016 Red Deer and District Community Foundation Women of Excellence award. Bev Toews, an educational assistant at Olds High School, has been nominated in the Education and Training category.

Uptowne should look more colourful than ever May 2-8 as schoolchildren literally mark the week by creating chalk art about mental health and wellness in front of stores there.

Olds RCMP are asking for your help to solve a robbery at the Liquor Depot. Police say the theft occurred on April 10 at about 1 p.m.

The Olds Lions Club is asking the town to consider extending its lease on the O.R. Hedges campground. The service group's current lease expires in December 2017.

Several members from the Olds Fire Department will be climbing the stairs of the Bow building in Calgary this Sunday to fundraise for Wellspring Calgary, a non-profit organization that supports people living with cancer.

Olds RCMP are urging drivers to make sure they're fully rested when driving after they dealt with an accident in which fatigue appears to have played a major role.

For the second straight year, women in Olds College's brewmaster and brewery operations management program have created and sold a beer for International Women's Day.

A Calgary man is due in court May 18 facing a charge of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle after a vehicle cut through a couple of vehicles at what police describe as “a high rate of speed” near Bowden.

A 20-year-old Olds College brewery student has won a prestigious business plan competition for an idea that makes use of excess brewer's grains.

Council was expected to vote on a 1.5 per cent tax rate increase at its regular meeting last night. The policies and priorities committee reviewed the proposal at its meeting on April 18.