Red Deer News

Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling greets a small remnant of Block horses, offspring of a feral herd that learned its survival instincts on the Suffield military range, where military bombers and mine setters trained.

The J.R. Simplot Co. is starting a new company with a Canadian-based partner to help farmers and producers better track products with a computerized data management system.

It wona t be long before people will be flipping flapjacks, cooking chili and decorating businesses as part of the off-site activities for Westerner Days.

Albertans could travel between Calgary and Edmonton in as little as an hour on a high-speed train linking the province's two largest cities and Red Deer, reveals a provincial government report that will be presented Monday to a joint Alberta-federal Conservative caucus meeting in Calgary.

A handout photo from a Red Deer, Alta., resident of a funnel cloud that became a tornado, touching down near the central Alberta city, on the evening of July 4, 2009.

The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based company, which owns Canada's Global television network, Australia's Network Ten and a chain of daily newspapers, agreed to sell CHCH-TV in Hamilton and CJNT-TV in Montreal to private broadcaster Channel Zero Inc.

The average price of gasoline in Canada has fallen for the second straight week, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Country music icon Ray Griff is battling cancer. Photograph by: Archive, Calgary Herald Preview A benefit and tribute to ray griff is tonight at the stetson.

A nine-year-old boy in Red Deer, Alta., suffered burn spots to his eyes when a water bottle he found on a soccer field exploded.

Charges are pending against two males caught rummaging through unlocked vehicles early Monday in the Anders neighbourhood in Red Deer.

It's somewhere between the fifth and sixth muttered expletive that I'm able to finally heave myself onto the top of the cliff.

Nipawin resident Mary Maksymiec celebrates her 100th birthday, June 20, at a come and go tea in St.

Adding new paths in a west-end neighbourhood and at a new off-leash dog park are part of this yeara s trail enhancements for Red Deer.

Canada Drought Watch . While long and severe drought in the US State of Georgia is officially "over", and water restrictions going "off" across the US Southeast , the Canadian prairie provinces are suffering an historic drought that may have serious impacts on farmers and food production.

Jage G. sent along the following: For what it is worth, the matches being promoted for the upcoming Smackdown!/ECW house show in Red Deer, Alberta, which occurs Monday August 10th, are as followed: CM Punk vs.

A piece of bush and lush farmland in central Alberta is the focal point in the deaths of nearly 20 deer and moose which died under suspicious circumstances over the winter.

Two new bridges are expected to be built this year for trails crossing the Blindman River and the Battle River.

The incoming president of Red Deer College, Joel Ward, is used to taking on big challenges.

CALGARY, Alta. -- GreatWest Kenworth has been named Kenworth's top North American medium-duty dealer.

Rob Harrison of North Vancouver, B.C., led the Comp Eliminator field in his 2005 Cavalier after Friday's qualifying on the first day of the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series stop at Spokane County Raceway.