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Red Deer County council has approved spending $10,000 a year for the next three years to support a new grain rescue training program. The approval came during council's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

Aurora Cannabis Inc., which has its licenced medical marijuana production facility located in Mountain View County near Cremona, has reached more than 1,000 active registered patients ordering products, officials announced last week.

Albertans are being asked to speak up about what matters to them. The Progressive Conservatives launched a new public engagement initiative last week, seeking input from Albertans on a wide range of policy areas.

Mountain View County will spend $52,152 on a fibre optic link between the existing county administration building and the new agricultural services building now under construction, the policies and priorities committee heard April 6.

While impaired driving and distracted driving continue to be factors in many collisions in Alberta, excessive speeding also remains one of the leading causes of crashes, say area police.

Mayors across Central Alberta can look to the future knowing they will have money for infrastructure from the federal government.

At the grassroots level in Central Alberta, there's support for the movement to unite small-c conservatives among Wildrose members. Michael Robertson is the president of the Wildrose Party's Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills constituency association.

Regional school board officials say everything is still a go for all approved international student trips for the remainder of the school year despite the recent deadly terrorist attack in Brussels.

The Didsbury regional landfill recently used a massive shingle shredder to process about 4,000 short tons of shingles collected over the past two years. The $260,000 project saw the shredder brought to the landfill by Penner Waste Inc. of Manitoba.

People caused the vast majority — more than 80 per cent — of last year's wildfires in the Rocky Forest Area, said a wildfire information officer with Alberta's Department of Agriculture and Forestry.