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Red Deer County council has approved multi-year budgets covering 2016-2018 operating expenditures and 2016-2020 capital expenditures. The approval came during the Dec. 8 regularly scheduled council meeting.

When crafting policy, the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Wildrose Party Constituency Association should look past ideology to what riding residents really want, president Michael Robertson says.

Baskets of Hope are once again helping make a difference in the lives of women affected by domestic violence.

Mountain View County councillors received the Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission's 2016-2021 business plan for information at the Dec. 9 regularly scheduled council meeting.

With the provincial government moving forward with amendments to Alberta's human rights legislation to include gender identity and gender expression, the Chinook's Edge School Division is nearing completion of its new sexual orientation and gender id

The Mountain View Cowpoke Junior Rodeo club held its second rodeo of the season at the Raecer Ranching Riding arena east of Sundre on Nov. 21.

The proposed new multi-year Red Deer County budget was presented to councillors on Nov. 24, with the municipality now seeking public input pending the next council meeting.

Heavy snowfall impacts livestock, wildlife The new year opened with huge snowfall levels affecting livestock and wildlife across the region.

Newly re-elected Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) president Gary Stanford says he's pleased and humbled to be back as president for a second straight one-year term.

The provincial cabinet will decide whether municipalities seeking withdrawal from the Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission by 2015 will be allowed to leave, according to the commission chair. “You can't just withdraw.