Olds News

A Calgary man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Olds College student Nicholas Baier. Jeffrey Leinen's Court of Queen's Bench jury trial in Calgary ended late Wednesday night with a guilty verdict.

Last week, Greg Lendvay, Olds College director of health and wellness, learned that his proposal had won the institution's $100,000 Centennial Innovation Fund. “His proposal is for a Canadian Centre for Rural High Performance Sport,” said Dr.

People wanting to make a donation to Olds College can now do it through a new online auction site. The site, which went live on Dec. 1, currently has 23 items available to bid on.

Olds College dean of agriculture Tanya McDonald received some good news on Nov. 25.

Town of Olds administration is hoping there will be no major snowfalls for the remainder of December in order to preserve its 2011 snow-clearing budget.

An Olds resident is facing three weapon-related charges in Didsbury court. On Sept. 27, Olds RCMP executed a search warrant at an Olds residence on 51 Street.

Olds town council passed the 2012 operating and capital budgets of $21.2 million and $4 million at its regular meeting yesterday, hiking residential property taxes by an average of $55 a year.

The Crown and defence are scheduled to make final arguments today (Tuesday) in the Court of Queen's Bench jury trial of a 26-year-old man charged after 18-year-old Olds College student Nicholas Baier was run down and killed in October 2010.

A 19-year-old Sundre woman who was a passenger in the truck that ran over and killed 18-year-old Olds College student Nicholas Baier in October 2010 has testified about looking directly at him seconds before he was struck down.

Black ice caused many accidents on Highway 2 during the weekend. Thirty-nine accidents were reported just for the Olds RCMP detachment area.