Olds News

RCMP expect a suspect alleged to have caused roughly $25,000 worth of damage to an Olds business to be charged this Friday (Oct. 17) with break and enter and mischief. Olds RCMP Cpl.

A dinner in Olds raised $10,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The supper, hosted by Boston Pizza in Olds on Oct. 6 was a sell-out. Forty tickets to the five-course meal were sold at $125 each.

A project to widen Highway 587 west of Bowden is well underway, and should be completed by Nov. 15, if the weather co-operates, a provincial official says. Jamie Friesen of Alberta Transportation says the approximately $5 million project began Oct.

An Olds equine science grad is living her dream – riding horses in performances all over the world.

Kevin O'Leary, star of the TV shows Dragon's Den in Canada and Shark Tank in the U.S., says he learned his secrets to investing from his mom. He shared those secrets with about 185 people in the Pomeroy Inn this past week.

All the lights in Uptowne Olds should be fully assembled and ready to face the winter by tomorrow, according to Old Chief Operating Officer Scott Chant.

Olds College graduate Mick Plemel wants to give other people the royal treatment as the 2015 Calgary Stampede Queen. “It's something that I've always wanted to do because you get to have such a positive impact on people,” Plemel said.

Olds RCMP have received several complaints that some motorists aren't stopping properly and are even passing school buses while they're stopped to load or unload passengers.

The Olds cadets garnered high praise at the squadron's change of command ceremony on Oct. 9 at the Olds Recreation Center. Lt.-Cmdr. Bob Newton presided over the occasion and said that Squadron No.

A 20-year-old man is serving a six-year sentence for robbery, drug offences and fleeing from police after a dramatic incident that began in Innisfail and ended in Bowden in the spring. Dillon Bristow was convicted Oct.